From a07ff75e654cf70a98963e995643f6740af407ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Bodewig Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:31:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Very early version of sorting and grouping the feature request for Ant2. Feel free to change everything I've done so far 8-) git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@269041 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/ant2/features.html | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 105 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/ant2/features.html diff --git a/docs/ant2/features.html b/docs/ant2/features.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..88ca3931a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ant2/features.html @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ + + + + + Ant2 feature list + + + +

Ant2 Goals

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Even though Ant2 is expected to be incompatible with the + current Ant1 series, it still has the same goals. Ant is a Java + based build tool and this remains the main focus of it. The + original goals of simplicity, understandability and extensibility + still stand and Ant2 will try to achieve them even better than + Ant1 does.

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Simplicity and Understandability

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These two goals are closely related. Ant build files shall be + easy to read and understand - at the same time it should be easy + to write a custom Ant task and to use the utility classes that + Ant2 provides.

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Ant2 shall be more consistent than Ant1 is - this means:

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Furthermore some things will have to become more explicit:

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Extensibility

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Ant2 like Ant1 uses build files written in XML as its main + input, but it will not be restricted to it. The core of Ant2 will + work on an object model of Project/Target/Task that is independent + of any external representation.

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As an extension of the current <taskdef> + concept, tasks can be bundled into task libraries (together with + data types and other utility classes). These task libraries are + special JAR archives that somehow describe the contained tasks to + Ant. Ant will automatically know all tasks contained in task + libraries that have been placed into a special directory - in + addition task libraries can be referenced and used in a build file + explicitly.

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New/Modified Features

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Ant2 is going to break Ant1 in several ways:

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Rejected Features

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