I reply to all of you here. For me it does not matter so much, if Ant's XML is replaced by Python, Jython, Groovy or another scripting language. I think all would be better for writing Ant scripts than the XML way. In the beginning of Ant, XML seemed to be a good way. But as it evolved, I guess it got more and more elements of a scripting language and the XML way became more and more less suitable. XML was not made for writing a script with it but for being a data container. It is like a fork was not made to comb hair but to eat with it. That is my opinion and experience. I once tried just to use the Ant API programatically in Java instead of writing XML files and thought that it was not designed for being used in a productive way but for being able to do anything. But I am not sure if this still applies, because that was two years ago when I tried it this way. Eclipse has now added support for debugging Ant scripts, which shows their script nature. But other IDE developers have to implement such a debugging feature too. If for example Python is used for writing Ant scripts, there are many IDEs with good support for writing, much better than a normal XML editor. Or am I wrong? It is your baby, the Ant thing. I just told the you what I personally would change if I were responsible for Ant.
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