From ant-dev-return-35180-qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev=jakarta.apache.org@jakarta.apache.org Mon Jul 08 06:04:14 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 49804 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2002 06:04:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 06:04:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 21480 invoked by uid 97); 8 Jul 2002 06:04:33 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 21425 invoked by uid 97); 8 Jul 2002 06:04:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 21413 invoked by uid 98); 8 Jul 2002 06:04:32 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Message-ID: <3D292B3D.3020502@apache.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:03:41 +0200 From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Reply-To: nicolaken@apache.org Organization: Apache Software Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Ant 2 et al. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N dion@multitask.com.au wrote: > Nicola Ken Barozzi writes: > >>dion@multitask.com.au wrote: >> > Long Email Warning.... >> > >> > I've spent some time this weekend reading up on the various proposals > > >>for >> > Ant 2, and my first reaction is: >> > >> > 'Is Ant dead?' >>:-)) >>-Javaworld editors' choice 2002 >>-Development software 2002 Productivity award > > >>If this is _dead_ ;-) > > IBM's VisualAge for Java was a JavaWorld Editor's choice finalist from > memory last year, and it's now a defunct product. Winning awards proves > how good it is, not whether development has stagnated. > >>What instead I personally am starting to think, is that Ant*2* is dead. > > Glad to see someone come out and say it. Personally, this would be a > tragedy for me, given the limitations of Ant 1.x. :-O >>The proposals are doing an excellent job in driving the incremental >>changes in the 1.* releases, which are gaining the Ant2 features > > gradually. > Which isn't really the point though is it? The idea of proposals is for an > eventual vote, not as a sandbox for development. Well, maybe, but I find what is happening here quite interesting as per the dynamics. I never thought that the proposals would be put in the codebase piece by piece, quite interesting outcome IMHO. Anyway probably we will switch codebase, but the transition of Ant1 will have it more aligned in features to Ant2, making the eventual switch less painful for users. >>I think that Ant has big room to grow, as it's doing now; there is the >>new tag proposal and patch, the antlib one. > > Ant definitely has lots of places to grow into. The question is 'How?' not > whether it will. Currently we are staying on an evolutionary path with > little or no discussion of the alternatives. Ah, ok. With this I agree. >>If things continue as now, Ant2 will (maybe) come out of Ant 1.9 as a >>natural evolution. > > Possibly. And it may also take a lot longer to get there than if we adopt > one of the proposals now, and freeze the Ant 1.x code. The proposals now are not ready IMHO for a code switch. I know that it will take more time, but it could make a better product. I've seen many projects change codebase and really suffer it, so if it's to be done, it will have to give substantial benefits. I don't see (maybe I'm wrong) that these changes are that important to justify the codebase switch. Excuse me if I repeat myself, but what are the features that Ant doesn't give you that you need? Maybe we could work to put them in Ant1. >>Of course, this is my very personal guess. > > Ditto. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: