RE: Here is my Centipede scepticism

Mats,

To summarize my thoughts on your various postings:

1) cents are more scriptlets than ubber tasks, you can't pass in significant
customisations (such as links). (This isn't something we like [per se], but
we don't have a workaround to it given current ant implementation. )
2) Please don't judge cents c.f a single ant task, cents will/should loose.
Cents are more "blocks of script" or "groups of tasks", that are
related/work together.
3) We need to communicate that centipede is not trying to replace ant, just
supplement it. We need to allow incremented benefit to the ant user.
4) We need to communicate that centipede is:

	1) Project metadata (gump style) to ant properties
	2) Optional re-usable scriptlets (cents)
	3) Some powerful (optional) automation tasks (such as Ruper).

Although (1) is currently mandatory, (2) and (3) are totally optional for
the user to fit into their build.xml or not.

5) We need to support folks using ant as they know it, without any krysalis
cents, only their own. This will better communicate centipede infrastructure
w/o imposing a lot of change.

6) Centipede is useful to support ant script re-use. Ant scripts can be
re-used by some people, some of the time. If a krysalis cent is not usable,
write your own, and distribute it locally via your own repository.

regards,

Adam



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