Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Atherton
Those changes you have sound useful. Good luck with getting them cleared, I'm sure a number of people would appreciate having access to those hooks. I think adding the standard packaging and deployment mechanism of Java 8 to Antlibs once 8 comes out makes a lot of sense. Once that happens som

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-15 Thread Jeffrey E Care
Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 02/15/2012 02:05:28 PM: > Is there something wrong with antlib ? Would OSGI be more convenient and > appealing for programmers to create and contribute their plugins rather > than writing their own build system ? Derivatives of eclipse exists, but > mainly they are just

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-15 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Another thing I don't understand about the current Ant. Why there are derivatives from ant and they are gaining popularity ? I am talking about gradle and easyant. Gradle adds mutli project support, and easyant sets some conventions (I didn't use it). I am wondering what makes the author go with a