Bruce Atherton wrote on 02/13/2012 01:25:30 PM:
> I actually wanted to discuss Java 7 on the list. I went through its
> features a while ago and got really excited when I read through NIO 2.0.
> It does so much that Ant has to struggle with, and so much that Ant
> can't do.
>
> I spent some
On 02/13/2012 01:25 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote:
could Java 7 and NIO 2.0 be a good reason to create Ant 2.0?
While the new java.nio.file.* APIs are indeed valuable for a tool like Ant, I hardly think a fork or major rewrite is required to take advantage of them. As Stefan
pointed out, it would b
interesting info. It looks like the idea of the redesign has been discussed
a lot in the past.
Another good point, is to have ant independent of any external libraries.
However, I am wondering if this applies to run time environment ?
For example, writing a core ant (mainly build.xml parser), as an
This brings up a point to consider if a rewrite is desired. Ant has
always avoided relying on external libraries because it is usually the
first thing in the build chain. It can't have any dependencies itself if
it is to be self-building. There are tasks that require external
libraries to be co
good point Jeff.
I just though about the performance. I am not sure what would be the
performance for JPF compared to OSGI. But your are very correct. That's why
we discuss this on the mailing list. In all cases, these are just thoughts,
and I don't know if there's enough interest in these ideas.
Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 02/13/2012 01:57:56
PM:
> From: Mansour Al Akeel
> To: Ant Developers List
> Cc: Stefan Bodewig
> Date: 02/13/2012 01:58 PM
> Subject: Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support
>
> Bruce,
> In fact I was thinking about the same thing. The idea of forking Ant
Bruce,
In fact I was thinking about the same thing. The idea of forking Ant and
rewrite parts of it to use Java 7 NIO, and introduce java plugin frame
work http://jpf.sourceforge.net/ crossed my mind few times.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote:
> I actually wanted to disc
I actually wanted to discuss Java 7 on the list. I went through its
features a while ago and got really excited when I read through NIO 2.0.
It does so much that Ant has to struggle with, and so much that Ant
can't do.
I spent some time starting to implement a very simple (only a few tasks)
n
