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From: Andre-John mas <andrejohn.mas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ant Version
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:43:25 -0500
To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>


On 2013-12-10, at 0:18, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:

> On 2013-12-09, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>=20
>> It is what I used and how the patch was accepted, but since I was told
>> it wasn't ideal I wanted to see if there were ways to deal with this
>> going forward.
>=20
> It was me who said it wasn't ideal.  My concern is IDE integration which
> might start Ant differently and bypass Main so the static methods on
> Main don't work properly.
>=20
> Andre-John's contribution made me look at the implementation again and
> since the methods are static and only rely on ther version.txt file
> being present, I no longer see a problem.  An implementation outside of
> Main wouldn't look any different and I highly doubt an IDE integration
> would remove the Main class completely.
>=20
> Stefan

Thanks for the insight. At the same time your original comment got me thinki=
ng about class dependencies on whether it would make better architectural se=
nse to have a class that represents the application's environment, to avoid a=
ny potential two way dependencies with Main?

Andre-John=

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