Dominique Devienne-2 wrote:
But while I agree that having a true scripting language for Ant would
help (OO, prototype-based, or functional, leaning towards the latter
for Ant myself), I think it's important to remember than good builds
are *declarative* in nature. Using a pure language, when most have
little or no support to declare your intent, would make scripts
unreadable.
I completely agree. I just saw that the example I gave was not posted well. Here's another try:
So I have a project that I want to build a jar from:
<project prototype="jar_project">
<sourcePath>/path/to/sources</sourcePath>
</project>
<main>project.compile</main>
This is all declerative. What it does is create a project object, with data member 'sourcePath' whose prototype is jar_project. Behind the scenese, the object has a lot of methods, but the average joe does not care about them. However, If someone wants to change the logic, he can then do that. Btw, I think this is a lot more declarative than defining lots of targets and tasks (these are defined by jar_project).
Thank you,
Ittay
