Re: [DISCUSS] EasyAnt: Ant based pre packaged build system for java projects

2008-04-30 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The root of this is, I think, because while dealing with all this build > logic, both frameworks refused to embrace the principals behind OOP. Both > obviously need a backing language to actually do things and have chosen >

Re: [DISCUSS] EasyAnt: Ant based pre packaged build system for java projects

2008-04-30 Thread Gilles Scokart
2008/4/30 Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've read this thread and would like to maybe try and take this discussion > elsewhere. > > The way I see it is that Ant and Maven came to being in order to simplify > building projects. The philosophy (as I see it) was either "create an xml > file

Re: [DISCUSS] EasyAnt: Ant based pre packaged build system for java projects

2008-04-30 Thread Ittay Dror
Dominique Devienne-2 wrote: > > But while I agree that having a true scripting language for Ant would > help (OO, prototype-based, or functional, leaning towards the latter > for Ant myself), I think it's important to remember than good builds > are *declarative* in nature. Using a pure language

Re: [DISCUSS] EasyAnt: Ant based pre packaged build system for java projects

2008-04-30 Thread Ittay Dror
Gilles Scokart wrote: > > You should maybe have a look to buildr. > I did, and also raven, guilder, gant, gradle, graven and more. The thing is, Ant is the de-facto standard, with the largest community. If we want to finally have a system that is easy to understand and yet can build JEE projec

Re: suggestion : Ant 1.8 full dist to include a 'scripting lang'

2008-04-30 Thread Ittay Dror
Stefano Marsili wrote: > > Hi everybody, > I'm really no Ant expert, but I'm working on a project > that might be of interest to this thread. > It defines an expression language that extends > Ant's property expansion. At the moment the language > is limited and is still subject to heavy cha

Re: Merge 641903 from trunk to 1.7 branch?

2008-04-30 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Kevin, great work. I have switched my project to use the 1.7.1beta for all builds already and it is working great. Regards, Antoine Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:50:13 +0700 > Von: "Kevin Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Ant Developers List" > Bet

Re: [VOTE] migrate Ivy's wiki to Confluence

2008-04-30 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
+1 Antoine Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:43:47 +0200 > Von: "Xavier Hanin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Ant Developers List" > Betreff: Re: [VOTE] migrate Ivy\'s wiki to Confluence > Obviously, here's my own +1. > > It seems we have agreed to make this migratio

Re: Defining format for Property

2008-04-30 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello, can you repost this message on our user mailling list user at ant dot apache dot org ? Regards, Antoine Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:31:55 -0700 (PDT) > Von: dkhanna123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: dev@ant.apache.org > Betreff: Defining format for Proper