Re: Ant: pros and cons!

2004-07-20 Thread roger day
What's stopping you using the java classes? You could even use it from Jython. Isn't that non-XML enough for you? If you really want to go the non-XML route, you could always use Scons. Anything else would be YASL - and, personally, I think that's a waste of time and energy. Stick to the XML - it

RE: Ant: pros and cons!

2004-07-20 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Nicolas Mailhot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On mar, 2004-07-20 at 09:56 +0200, Johan Vromans CPWR wrote: > > The current situation is that we have the worst of all: it's not a > > programming language, it's not a scripting language, it's not even > > XML anymore. > > The way dependency lis

Re: Ant: pros and cons!

2004-07-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On mar, 2004-07-20 at 09:56 +0200, Johan Vromans CPWR wrote: > The Ant design team has always stated that they wanted the Ant control language > to be descriptive, and not a scripting (or programming) language. And failed. If > you have variables (properties) and conditions (if="propname") you h