Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 17359 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 15:28:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 15:28:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 16317 invoked by uid 97); 27 Nov 2002 15:29:47 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 16301 invoked by uid 97); 27 Nov 2002 15:29:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 16289 invoked by uid 98); 27 Nov 2002 15:29:46 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) X-Sent: 27 Nov 2002 15:28:39 GMT Message-ID: <3DE4E4B2.8000603@ehatchersolutions.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:28:50 -0500 From: Erik Hatcher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding Dynamic elements for the n'th time References: <000e01c2958e$05607f60$270610ac@manu.com> <3DE3ED6A.4000209@ehatchersolutions.com> <3DE498D3.2040107@cortexebusiness.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I was just commenting that what little I know of Avalon/Cocoon has the same types of features our recent discussions have touched on (make everything an interface, make it pluggable with outside configuration, etc). I definitely agree with the polymorphic behavior. When/if I ever get time to think through it more, I want the polymorphic behavior even at the Project level. Erik Conor MacNeill wrote: > Erik Hatcher wrote: > >> It looks like we're getting closer and closer to the Avalon-based >> version of Ant, huh? >> >> All this talk of interfaces, pluggability, and conditional tasks..... >> :))) >> > > Magesh's patch is not really anything to do with Avalon or Myrmidon. > > I think, perhaps, we should agree that polymorphic behaviour is a > desirable objective. I certainly think it is. When I define a subclass > of a type I should not need to change all tasks that take that type. > > Conor > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: