* Updated todo list.

* Removed the 'differences to ant1' blurbage from index.xml. * Regenerated HTML. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@272036 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
23 years ago · 1e0690bc78
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          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
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          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
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          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
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@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
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      <title>Apache Myrmidon - Differences to Ant1</title>
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          <td valign="bottom"><div align="right"><b><font size="+3" color="#525D76">Apache Myrmidon</font></b></div></td>
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                <p><strong>Myrmidon</strong></p>
    <ul>
          <li>      <a href="./index.html">Introduction</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./getinvolved.html">Get Involved</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./user.html">Building Myrmidon</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./todo.html">Todo List</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>User Guide</strong></p>
    <ul>
          <li>      <a href="./buildfile.html">Build file</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
    <ul>
          <li>      <a href="./task.html">Task Writers HOWTO</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./classloader.html">ClassLoader HOWTO</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./librarys.html">Library HOWTO</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Container Design</strong></p>
    <ul>
        </ul>
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          <td align="left" valign="top">
        <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
        <a name="Differences to Ant 1.x"><strong>Differences to Ant 1.x</strong></a>
      </font>
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td>
      <blockquote>
                        <p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and Myrmidon:</p>
                                <ul>
                <li>
                Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing
                    <i>antlib</i> task libraries.  This makes it very easy to
                distribute and install tasks and data-types.
                </li>
                <li> A project can import other projects, and reference their targets. </li>
                <li>Properties and data type references now share the same namespace.</li>
                <li>
                Changes to task and data-type API:
                    <ul>
                        <li>An interface based API, through which a task interacts with the
                        task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
                        <li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
                        <li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are configured.</li>
                        <li>Reference handling is handled automatically when objects are configured.</li>
                        <li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add facilities like logging,
                        error handling, or user preferences.</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>A set of well-defined services and APIs have been introduced, to allow
                tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
                    <ul>
                        <li>Execute external commands.</li>
                        <li>Execute other tasks.</li>
                        <li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
                        <li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
                        <li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
                        <li>...</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
                                <p>There are plenty more features planned.  You can read about them
                <a href="todo.html">here</a>.
            </p>
                    </blockquote>
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          Copyright &#169; 2000-2002, Apache Software Foundation
          </em></font></div>
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/docs/index.html
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
@@ -76,85 +78,27 @@
    <tr><td>
      <blockquote>
                        <p>
 Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development.  You can
 read more about the goals of Ant 2
 <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/">here</a>.
 </p>
                                <p>
 Myrmidon is a general-purpose <i>task engine</i>.  It contains the basic
 building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool.  Ant 2
 is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the Myrmidon task
 engine, and a library of build related tasks.
 </p>
                                <p>
 Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might look.  It
 includes a small set of tasks and data types.  We are currently porting
 many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
 </p>
                                <p>
 </p>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
  </table>
        <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
        <a name="Differences to Ant 1.x"><strong>Differences to Ant 1.x</strong></a>
      </font>
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td>
      <blockquote>
                        <p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and Myrmidon:</p>
                                <ul>
 <li>
 Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing <i>antlib</i> task
 libraries.  This makes it very easy to distribute and install tasks and data-types.
 </li>
            Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development.  You can
            read more about the goals of Ant 2
 <li>
 A project can import other projects, and reference their targets.
 </li>
                <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/">here</a>.
 <li>
 Changes to the property model:
 <ul>
    <li>Properties and data type references now share the same namespace.</li>
    <li>Properties are mutable.</li>
    <li>Properties are scoped into global, local, and parent contexts.</li>
    <li><code>if</code> and <code>unless</code> checks now test the property
    value against <code>false</code>, in addition to testing set/not-set.</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>
 Changes to task and data-type API:
 <ul>
    <li>An interface based API, through which a task interacts with the
    task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
    <li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
    <li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are configured.</li>
    <li>Reference handling is handled automatically when objects are configured.</li>
    <li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add facilities like logging,
    error handling, or user preferences.</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li>
 A set of well-defined services and APIs have been introduced, to allow
 tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
 <ul>
    <li>Execute external commands.</li>
    <li>Execute other tasks.</li>
    <li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
    <li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
    <li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
    <li>...</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
            </p>
                                <p>
            Myrmidon is a general-purpose
                <i>task engine</i>.  It contains the basic
            building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool.  Ant 2
            is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the Myrmidon task
            engine, and a library of build related tasks.
 </ul>
                                <p>There are plenty more features planned.  You can read about them <a href="todo.html">here</a>.</p>
            </p>
                                <p>
            Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might look.  It
            includes a small set of tasks and data types.  We are currently porting
            many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
            </p>
                                <p>
            </p>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
  </table>
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          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
@@ -80,6 +82,51 @@
            sections describe some of the many things which still need to be done to
            achieve that goal.  This list is currently under construction.</p>
                                  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
        <a name="Security Manager"><strong>Security Manager</strong></a>
      </font>
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td>
      <blockquote>
                        <p>Add the ability to run java programs that call System.exit() by adding a
                security manager. Should look something like:</p>
                                  <div align="left">
    <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
        <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>
 public class MyrmidonSecurityManager
    extends SecurityManager
 {
    public void checkExit( final int status )
    {
        throw new ExitException( status );
    }
    public void checkPermission( final Permission permission )
    {
    }
 }
                </pre></td>
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      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
  </table>
                                  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
        <a name="Self Hosting"><strong>Self Hosting</strong></a>
@@ -94,6 +141,20 @@
                able to be built from scratch, without using Ant 1.x at all).</p>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
  </table>
                                  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
      <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
        <a name="Validation Pass"><strong>Validation Pass</strong></a>
      </font>
    </td></tr>
    <tr><td>
      <blockquote>
                        <p>Consider calling validate() on task prior to execute(). This would allow
                us to have a "make -k" mode that actually did basic validation and would also
                encourage task writers to do validation properly.</p>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
  </table>
                                  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
    <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
@@ -154,12 +215,14 @@
                    Write tests for the various bits that rely on Myrmidon
                    functionality:
                    <ul>
                        <li>Simple sanity test</li>
                        <li>if/unless on targets: check that behaviour complies with Ant1</li>
                        <li>Make sure properties are shared between Ant1 and Myrmidon tasks.</li>
                        <li>Make sure that &lt;ant1.property&gt; behaves as per Ant1</li>
                    </ul>
                    </li>
                    <li>Get GUMP runs going using Myrmidon.</li>
                    <li>i18n messages</li>
                </ul>
                    </blockquote>
    </td></tr>
@@ -402,7 +465,6 @@
                        <code>ant-services.xml</code> descriptor.
                    </li>
                    <li>Route external process stdout and stderr through the logger.</li>
                    <li>Add verbosity level to ProjectListener LogEvent</li>
                    <li>Fire ProjectListener events taskFinished(), targetFinished() and
                    projectFinished() events on build failure, adding indicator methods to
@@ -438,7 +500,11 @@
                    <li>Move
                        <code>crimson.jar</code> to
                        <code>bin/lib</code> in the distribution,
                    and make to other jars via the extension mechanism.
                    and make available to other jars via the extension mechanism.
                    </li>
                    <li>Change <code>DefaultPropertyResolver</code> to ignore '$${'.</li>
                    <li>Add a <code>--type</code> command-line option, to allow
                        the project builder to be manually selected.
                    </li>
                    <li>Unit tests.</li>
                </ul>
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+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/docs/user.html
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/docs/vfs.html
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/docs/vfs.html
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
          <li>      <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
  </li>
          <li>      <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
  </li>
        </ul>
      <p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -37,75 +37,6 @@
        </section>
        <section name="Differences to Ant 1.x">
            <p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and Myrmidon:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>
                Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing
                    <i>antlib</i> task
                libraries.  This makes it very easy to distribute and install tasks and data-types.
                </li>
                <li>
                A project can import other projects, and reference their targets.
                </li>
                <li>
                Changes to the property model:
                    <ul>
                        <li>Properties and data type references now share the same namespace.</li>
                        <li>Properties are mutable.</li>
                        <li>Properties are scoped into global, local, and parent contexts.</li>
                        <li>
                            <code>if</code> and
                            <code>unless</code> checks now test the property
                        value against
                            <code>false</code>, in addition to testing set/not-set.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>
                Changes to task and data-type API:
                    <ul>
                        <li>An interface based API, through which a task interacts with the
                        task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
                        <li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
                        <li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are configured.</li>
                        <li>Reference handling is handled automatically when objects are configured.</li>
                        <li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add facilities like logging,
                        error handling, or user preferences.</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>
                A set of well-defined services and APIs have been introduced, to allow
                tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
                    <ul>
                        <li>Execute external commands.</li>
                        <li>Execute other tasks.</li>
                        <li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
                        <li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
                        <li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
                        <li>...</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
            <p>There are plenty more features planned.  You can read about them
                <a href="todo.html">here</a>.
            </p>
        </section>
    </body>
 </document>
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/todo.xml
@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@ public class MyrmidonSecurityManager
                        <code>ant-services.xml</code> descriptor.
                    </li>
                    <li>Route external process stdout and stderr through the logger.</li>
                    <li>Add verbosity level to ProjectListener LogEvent</li>
                    <li>Fire ProjectListener events taskFinished(), targetFinished() and
                    projectFinished() events on build failure, adding indicator methods to
@@ -350,7 +349,11 @@ public class MyrmidonSecurityManager
                    <li>Move
                        <code>crimson.jar</code> to
                        <code>bin/lib</code> in the distribution,
                    and make to other jars via the extension mechanism.
                    and make available to other jars via the extension mechanism.
                    </li>
                    <li>Change <code>DefaultPropertyResolver</code> to ignore '$${'.</li>
                    <li>Add a <code>--type</code> command-line option, to allow
                        the project builder to be manually selected.
                    </li>
                    <li>Unit tests.</li>
                </ul>