Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

Le 16 févr. 2012 à 20:47, Bruce Atherton a écrit :

> I'd hope to go further than that in backwards compatibility. I work with a 
> lot of companies that are:
> 
>    a) resistant to learning new things unless there is a good reason for it 
> (such as the migration from Apache HTTP Server from 1.x to 2.x to resolve 
> security issues)
> 
>    b) have a number of separate Ant build scripts that follow different 
> standards in different areas of the company, particularly if they have
> 
> and c) need to have a justification to allocate resources to upgrade and 
> change a working build to use new features, which standardizing builds across 
> the organization using new features in a major release that simplify the 
> build system may offer them.

I don't know conclusion you're having there. Such companies shouldn't worry 
about any new major version, because they actually do want to stick with the 
old one for stability purpose. I guess that the companies which would be 
troubled is the ones which want to keep up with the releases, migrations from 
one version to another should not be too painful.

> You are right about the plugin parser architecture in Ant 1.x, but one of the 
> problems with it is that there is nothing shipped by default. What I meant 
> was that I would love it if Ant 2 also represented a point where new builds 
> could think about using a new build format automatically, just based on file 
> extension or a flag on the command line. That might encourage new projects to 
> adopt it.

Well, again, I think it's already there, no need to wait for an Ant 2.0 :)
If you add the groovy-front.jar in Ant's boot classpath, write a build.groovy, 
then a launch of ant with no parameter on the command line will execute your 
groovy build script. See 
ProjectHelperRepository.getProjectHelperForBuildFile(Resource)

Nicolas


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