[platform-ant-dev] A few things that I have to say about the Planty plug

["Saumendra Poddar" <saumendrapoddar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do I tell Planty that a certain xml file is an ANT file?
What if I have 3 xml files named "a1.xml", "b2.xml", and "c3.xml" which
are 3 Ant build files. How do I make Planty aware that only these 3
files in the project are ANT xml files. The current solution is to
either name the file "build.xml", or map *.xml to Planty. Well
definitely mapping *.xml isn't a good solution cause not all my xml
files are ant files, and naming my ant file to build.xml isn't
appropiate cause there is no opportunity to add more build files with
different names to the project. This is a similar problem that was in
Antview previously.

I remember some time agowhen I was using Planty, I found that Planty was
using the dtd generated by the antstruture task, but this dtd doesn't
contain proper dtd information, hence the information displayed by the
code completion was sometimes displaying wrong elements & attributes.
For example the fail task doesn't display proper attributes. Apache has
also clearly mentioned on their website that there are some issues with
the antstruture task. I think you people are aware of all this. So are
you implementing some other solution for code completion? If so, how
dynamic will this solution be. Suppose ant releases version 1.6
tomorrow, can I add the ant 1.6 jar file to eclipse and have ant code
completion for 1.6? (This sort of dynamic feature is available in
Netbeans http://www.netbeans.org/news/index.html#310)

I don't remember, but I think Planty doesn't check wether the ant file
is a valid xml file. Does it?

Dynamic code formating does not exist.

Live error parsing does not exist.

The appearance of planty editor is not consistant with the appearance of
the JDT. For example the color of the code completion box in Ant is not
the same as the color of the code completion box of JDT. Line Number is
missing.