On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Dominique Devienne <DDevienne@lgc.com> wrote:
> Why can't Main.java be modified to not call System.exit, possibly
> conditionally under the control from a new command line argument?
Reread Rich's mail. Ant calling System.exit is not his problem (well,
at leat not all of it), he's looking for a more general solution.
Main#main has never been intended to be anything but the command line
entry point into Ant. Calling System.exit with any argument other
than 0 on errors is highly appreciated by us Unix users. This rules
out removing the System.exit unconditionally.
I'd rather add a new method for non-command line usage that didn't
include a System.exit than making this conditional. But then again,
we don't really have a nice API for embeddors and we shouldn't even
try to claim we had one (which a separate entry point for embeddors
micht do).
I'd rather like to see us providing a real API for these things, and
thought the Antidote project would push Ant into that direction. It
didn't and efforts have slowed down.
Stefan
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