Re: xmlc 2.2 alpha 4

On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 02:50 Asia/Shanghai, Chris Webb wrote:

> Yeah I got the latest from ObjectWeb. A few points:
>
> 1. I think Ant should also be put in xmlc/xmlc/modules/xmlc/lib 
> because of the XMLC taskdef Ant dependacy. I realise that Ant is 
> required globally but I think it's a better approach not to deliver 
> Ant for the purpose of building everything as people generally have 
> Ant installed on their development envionment for that purpose. Also 
> adding a particular version of Ant to XMLC lib allows us to add some 
> guarantee that the XMLC  taskdef will work with the right version of 
> Ant. Does that make any sense?

Actually, I think Ant should not be included at all. Unfortunately, the 
build.xml we have right now have an dependency on 1.4 and a lot of 
people are using 1.5. The ant is included for the purpose.

> 2. It would be great to have an Ant taskdef that creates the HTML 
> LazyDOMs as I don't build under Linux/Unix.

Yes, I agree. Any one know a good ant task that would do string 
substitution?

David