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--- Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jose Alberto Fernandez
> <jalberto@cellectivity.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now, for backward compatibility and for
> convinience in general, one
> > would like to be able to put in the -lib
> directories a bunch of
> > antlib jars and that all their tasks get declared
> automatically as
> > part of the default name space.
> 
> Steve's approach would allow you to load them into
> different
> namespaces.  I don't see that much benefit over
> <typedef
> resource="..."/> in his case, though.
> 
> > So, any ideas how this could be acomplished?
> 
> Load all resources from META-INF/antlib.xml at
> startup and process
> them, I'd say.

Sounds cool, but what do you do about e.g. collisions
among tasknames from 3rd-party distributions?  What is
the user's recourse, turn off the warning and manually
typedef (both)?

-Matt

> 
> Stefan
> 
>
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