> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<snip/> Apologies for the delay in responding (have been swamped with moving house and the cup). > > I think that part of the problem here is that Ant is > > bootstrapping itself from nothing and as a > > consequence we have an overly complex build file that does not > > generate the information needed for rapid problem > > identification/resolution by the non-committer community. > > that sounds like one of my comments. Programmatic use of ant > is always secondary. Do we want to change that? > > If so, how? > > -split out libraries for execution, java exec, other misc > things -complete programmatic use of ant without problems I'm thinking along the lines of moving the ant codebase structure to something that reflects a project codebase per jar file where each project (a.k.a. ant-sub-project) would have its own build file, clearly identified dependencies, testcases, and resulting artifacts. Could this be a feasible post-1.7 objective? Cheers, Steve. -------------------------- Stephen McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpml.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]