If anyone's curious, I've recently posted some code at sourceforge for a project called Pynt. It's a java-based scripting language designed for running builds, and it integrates fairly well with ant tasks. The code is in pretty rough shape, as I've been sort of "thinking out loud" as opposed to trying to get a real release together, but I would like to hear what people think about the basic idea:
http://www.pynt.org Jonathan suggested coming up with a generic set of classes that could be called from a variety of scripting languages (ie jython, jruby, or xml), which would be great. A language like Pynt could then provide built in support for those features (a built in "file" type, for example, or a simple construct for scanning directories), for developers who wanted simplicity and didn't mind having to learn a new language. Thoughts? Matthew Foemmel ThoughtWorks, Inc.
