Fwd: RE: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-14 Thread peter reilly
on of "classloading in Ant X.X.X/Ant 1.6" exist? Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen -Original Message- From: peter reilly To: Ant Developers List Sent: 14-08-03 10:36 Subject: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:38, Costin Manolache wrote: > Cono

Re: PropertyHelper (was: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse)

2003-08-14 Thread Knut Wannheden
Costin, > > This raises a question: Are properties whose values are resolved by custom > > PropertyHelpers always converted to Strings? I see that the return type > > of PropertyHelper#getPropertyHook(String, String, boolean) has Object as > > the > > return type. But if that's always converted

Re: PropertyHelper (was: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse)

2003-08-14 Thread Costin Manolache
Knut Wannheden wrote: > Sounds great! > > In anticipation of this feature I have used a few namespaced properties > for > my custom tasks. And since Ant 1.5 doesn't have any value for these, I've > just made the tasks resolve them explicitly. > > This raises a question: Are properties whose val

Re: PropertyHelper (was: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse)

2003-08-14 Thread Gus Heck
Yes. PropertyHelper is a property interceptor, and it simply rocks. In essence, you register a helper with Ant. Then, at each request for a property, each registered helper is asked for the property value in turn; the first one that has it, returns it. Completely not following this property helpe

Re: PropertyHelper (was: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse)

2003-08-14 Thread Knut Wannheden
Sounds great! In anticipation of this feature I have used a few namespaced properties for my custom tasks. And since Ant 1.5 doesn't have any value for these, I've just made the tasks resolve them explicitly. This raises a question: Are properties whose values are resolved by custom PropertyHelp

Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-14 Thread peter reilly
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:38, Costin Manolache wrote: > Conor MacNeill wrote: > > The others are antlib/namespace/polymorph stuff. I'm wondering if we can > > get to the point where the ant optional tasks are packaged as antlibs and > > potentially not added to the root loader if their supporti

PropertyHelper (was: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse)

2003-08-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Dominique Devienne wrote, On 12/08/2003 15.37: I'm also interested PropertyHelper, and in particular Costin's experimental XPath based one. I'd like to be able to define functions (defined as part of an AntLib) to operate directly on property values, kind of like XPath functions, and it sounds like

Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-14 Thread Costin Manolache
Conor MacNeill wrote: > The others are antlib/namespace/polymorph stuff. I'm wondering if we can > get to the point where the ant optional tasks are packaged as antlibs and > potentially not added to the root loader if their supporting libraries are > not also available to the root loader. This w

RE: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-12 Thread Dominique Devienne
way to get this!?!? --DD > -Original Message- > From: Knut Wannheden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse > > > > The others are antlib/namespace/polymorph stuff. I'

Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-12 Thread Knut Wannheden
> > The others are antlib/namespace/polymorph stuff. I'm wondering if we can > > get to the point where the ant optional tasks are packaged as antlibs and > > potentially not added to the root loader if their supporting libraries are > > not also available to the root loader. This would allow them

Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-12 Thread peter reilly
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 04:20, Conor MacNeill wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:53 am, Matt Benson wrote: > > I know the quote is "there is no timeframe yet on this > > release". But is there a ballpark? 2003? Some > > particular half of 2004? > > Ant 1.6 is very much alive, IMHO. > > 2003. :-)

Re: beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-12 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:53 am, Matt Benson wrote: > I know the quote is "there is no timeframe yet on this > release". But is there a ballpark? 2003? Some > particular half of 2004? > Ant 1.6 is very much alive, IMHO. 2003. :-) IMHO, I would hope to have it soon (where soon is undefined :-)) b

beating the dead Ant 1.6 horse

2003-08-12 Thread Matt Benson
I know the quote is "there is no timeframe yet on this release". But is there a ballpark? 2003? Some particular half of 2004? Thanks, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ---