Re: Here is my Centipede scepticism
Mats Henricson <[email protected]>
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Agree 100%! Mats > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best > thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features > you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. > _______________________________________________ > krysalis-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/krysalis-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com.