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 92040 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2000 18:42:55 -0000 Received: from web123.mail.yahoo.com (HELO web123.yahoomail.com) (205.180.60.191) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2000 18:42:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 12450 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Dec 2000 18:42:52 -0000 Message-ID: <20001218184252.12449.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Received: from [64.163.67.114] by web123.yahoomail.com; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:42:52 PST Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:42:52 -0800 (PST) From: Diane Holt Subject: Re: Change in the "ant" task from 1.1 to 1.2 To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I believe the change was primarily driven by the concept of having "subprojects". I was against the change initially, but have actually come to rely on it, as a compromise from the old "build-file in every subdir" approach, or having just one giganto build-file at the top of the tree (which turned out to be just too unwieldy to deal with, and, in a source-control environment could have meant any number of people trying to edit the file at the same time, leading to lots of "resolves" needing to be done [something you try hard to avoid]). The approach I took still isn't optimal by any means, but it was the best I could manage with Ant for now.