Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 72873 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2000 14:53:01 -0000 Received: from t3-d-static-237.adsl.directlink.net (HELO sdf.lonestar.org) (calix@63.68.131.237) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Oct 2000 14:53:01 -0000 Received: (from calix@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9BEpUo23860; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:51:30 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:51:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Saviely To: "'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'" Subject: Ant gui tool In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hello, I'm thinking on writing a Swing gui tool for using Ant. I envision it as making xml editing less tedious to use, rather than totally abstrating away knowledge of ant; it would probably find its best use for non-unix people in the middle of the learning curve who still want to have a well-structured buildfile, without having to immerse themselves in the details of Ant and experiment. My questions are assuming my first release stands fairly well on its own, and is quite useful. For one thing, is this redundant? The logical progression of things nowadays is to GUIs, so I'd think it would be in the works. Also, does a GPL license create problems? Would that mean that the jakarta project will be unwilling to link to it? Thanks, Saviely