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 65375 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2001 00:57:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mblfw3.macquarie.com.au) (203.28.95.251) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 13 Feb 2001 00:57:10 -0000 Received: by mblfw3.macquarie.com.au; id LAA06226; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:56:49 +1100 Received: from mblfw4(203.18.209.231) by mblfw3.macquarie.com.au via smap (V4.2) id xma004687; Tue, 13 Feb 01 11:54:40 +1100 Received: by mblfw4.macquarie.com.au; id LAA04578; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:54:39 +1100 Received: from isdserv3.macbank(10.123.0.32) by mblfw4.macquarie.com.au via smap (V4.2) id xma003084; Tue, 13 Feb 01 11:52:29 +1100 Received: from nt_syd_ex01.macbank (nt_syd_ex01 [10.124.15.10]) by isdserv3.macbank (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA08566 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:52:28 +1100 (EST) Received: by nt_syd_ex01.macbank with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <1Y7MF2LQ>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:52:27 +1100 Message-ID: <67FE02381F67D3119F960008C7845A2C0201CFBE@nt_syd_ex09.macbank> From: Tim Vernum To: "'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'" Subject: RE: What was a decision about task? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:52:26 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09557.3BEE72F0" X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09557.3BEE72F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > I was talking about macro expansion. So was I. In general, macro expansion is considered by the comitters to be something that is not wanted/needed/desired/accepted in Ant. XSLT is the way to do that sort of thing, and Ant should make it easier to do that in Ant2. > What is going to be implemented in ANT2? That's not yet clear. There's a list of requested features and a number of proposals. You can get an idea of what's being looked at by reading the dev mailing-list, or browse the docs: http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/jakarta-ant/docs/ant2/ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09557.3BEE72F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: What was a decision about <macro> task?

>   I was talking about macro expansion. =

So was I.
In general, macro expansion is considered by the = comitters to be something that is not wanted/needed/desired/accepted in = Ant.

XSLT is the way to do that sort of thing, and Ant = should make it easier to do that in Ant2.

> What is going to be implemented in ANT2?

That's not yet clear.
There's a list of requested features and a number of = proposals.

You can get an idea of what's being looked at by = reading the dev mailing-list, or browse the docs:
        http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/jakarta-ant= /docs/ant2/

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