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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@ebinteractive.com.au>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Target exposing Tasks?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:43:10 +1100
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Jim,

I think you may have misunderstood Stefan. The change you desire is
something that Simeon also wants to see for antidote. This does not mean
that you would need to use antidote to see a target's tasks. This will be a
core ant service.

Unless, I misundestood you, of course :-)

Conor


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cook [mailto:jimcook@iname.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 November 2000 12:22
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Target exposing Tasks?
>
>
> Looking at the latest source snapshot, the antitode project seems to not
> care about using Ant's Project|Target|Task objects, but rather it parses a
> project from scratch.
>
> I would like Ant integration in my tool to be a little more dependent on
> Ant, and less on a bundled GUI. Perhaps this is a shortterm design
> workaround for the time being, but it seems that they spent a good deal of
> time on it. Is this the direction for Antidote? If so, what's the
> rationale?
>
> For my needs (and other integrators) I would propose that the Project,
> Target, and Task objects expose their collections in Ant. I will make the
> change on my local model and I can post a patch if this makes sense to the
> committers. It's pretty simple if a committer chooses to do this on their
> own. It's more of a design decision, I suppose.
>
> jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@apache.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:47 AM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Target exposing Tasks?
>
>
> James Cook <jimcook@iname.com> wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't the Target object expose its Vector of Task objects? How
> > are people attempting to integrate Ant into their Tools getting the
> > list of Task's for a given Target?
>
> Recent CVS sources do - or at least Simeon has proposed to make the
> change and I haven't seen any objections. It's for exactly this
> purpose so that Antidote (the new GUI for Ant) can get a list of
> tasks.
>
> Stefan
>
>