[Instant-user] Re: Inst.ant - Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Danno F. <sh...@ya...>]

As far as SWT v.s. Swing, I was attempting to design the interface so 
that either could be used, or AWT or simple console interactions. 
 Whether I have coupled to tightly to swing right now rather than to 
keeing it generic is up for discussion, it's been a bit since I've 
looked at it.  I think brining in swt as well as swing would be a goof 
proof of concept for the design.

As for the new ant functionality, I've just beens subscribed to the 
ant-dev list at apache.  There was some discussion when the commit came 
in.  Unfortionately it's not too well documented yet.

As for a plan that the tasks inst.ant will provice, I am not sure what 
is being asked.  How it will interoperate?  It will be an external lib 
brought in via taskdefs.  What tasks need to be written?  Dunno, we 
should exploit as many of the existing ant tasks as we can, that was 
part of the point of writing Inst.Ant was to re-use the core of an 
existing tool rather than creating new java classes to do intaller 
classes.  That being said there will definately be a need for some as 
far as single jar deployment goes.

I've forwarded this to the mailing list that is set up as well, ideally 
I would like to see this grow into a community, so it has the 
possibility of becoming an apache ant subproject, so all design should 
be done in the open as a general rule of thumb.

thanks
--Danno

Ted Toth wrote:

>Danno,
>I've looking at the source base. So what are your
>thoughts on using SWT instead of Swing? Do you know
>where to get information on new functionality in Ant
>1.6? In particluar dynamic properties? Did you have a
>plan for the tasks inst.ant will provide?
>
>Ted
>
>--- Danno Ferrin <sh...@ya...> wrote:
>
>---------------------------------
>  Thanks for offering to help, it will surely be
>appreciated.  I've gone aheadand added you to the list
>of the developers for the project.
>
>Right now my paricipation will be rather limited given
>my work load at work. I assume that you've read my
>web-log entries so you have a good idea wherethe
>design needs to go.  If I had the time myself I would
>be looking intobringinging in what exists of ant 1.6
>and trying to get the property introspectorsand late
>resolution of tasks so that we can play evil games
>with mutableproeprties.  But as you can see there are
>lots of other rough edges thatneed to be smoothed
>over, so knock yourself out.
>
>--Danno
>
>Ted Toth wrote:
>
>  
>
>     Danno,I'm interested in
>
>helping. I've used Ant a bunch forbuilds and general
>utility work and have also done a lot ofinstaller work
>(not my primary job) with InstallAnywhere.
>I'mcurrently not working and had thought about
>starting a similarproject when I came across inst.ant.
>Ted    
>    
>
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