Re: Reasons why Java 7 got me excited about Ant 2

2012-02-26 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
Le 26 févr. 2012 à 18:12, Mansour Al Akeel a écrit : > Java is widely used and accepted. Scala is functional and it could be more > suitable for a build system, however, I don't see enough reasons for the > core to be written with scala or any other language. > I think it's better to keep it in j

Re: Reasons why Java 7 got me excited about Ant 2

2012-02-26 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Java is widely used and accepted. Scala is functional and it could be more suitable for a build system, however, I don't see enough reasons for the core to be written with scala or any other language. I think it's better to keep it in java, and allow the addition of plugins written in other languag

Re: Reasons why Java 7 got me excited about Ant 2

2012-02-26 Thread wolfgang häfelinger
Hi there, how about rewriting Ant 2.0 using Scala? Scala appears to be well suited as a scripting language. Charged with a scripting language, I could write low level macros on the fly. // Wolfgang On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Bruce Atherton wrote: > I thought I'd expand on why I got so e

Reasons why Java 7 got me excited about Ant 2

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Atherton
I thought I'd expand on why I got so excited about NIO 2.0 and JSR 203 as well as the other changes in Java 7. I can see I have done a bad job of selling the benefits of a refactoring for potential volunteers. Reading through the changes that were introduced in Java 7, it seems to me that Ant w