From jon@latchkey.com Tue Nov 28 04:33:13 2000 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 45742 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2000 04:33:13 -0000 Received: from hellfire.clearink.com (HELO clearink.com) (205.227.191.11) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 28 Nov 2000 04:33:13 -0000 Received: from [131.161.251.227] ([131.161.251.227]) by clearink.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eAS4XDl30797 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:33:13 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:33:24 -0800 Subject: Re: Composing a system out of projects From: Jon Stevens To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N on 11/27/2000 7:53 PM, "Sam Ruby" wrote: > It did not trigger much in the way of dicussion at the time. > > - Sam Ruby Code speaks louder than words. If James Davidson had said that he had this proposal for a cool build tool called Ant and it would solve all of our problems, I think that we all would have said, "great, let see it!"...but, the proposal itself probably wouldn't have gotten anyone to actually implement it. The fact that he put source code out...no matter how hacky and ugly it was originally, that spawned enough interest in it to make it better and into the very cool system we have today. thanks, -jon -- twice of not very much is still a lot more than not very much