The 2.1 plan below is a
proto plan and input from the community is very welcome.
The overall themes for Eclipse Ant are:
- robust and enhance
- reduce gestures, improve usability
- first class Ant integration
Planned Items
- Ant view
 run scripts- run targets
- synchronize with script
under edit
- enhance target selection
(via "active" targets area)
- find and add arbitrary scripts
to the view
- Ant Editor
- Investigate support for an Ant editor
- Launch Configurations
- Use launch configurations
to define/run external tools/ant scripts
- Run tools in non-UI thread
(i.e. non-modal)
- Ant Launch Configurations
- Support for configuration
specific classpath
- Console
- Shared console with debug
platform
- Navigation from error output
to the corresponding source/resource (done for javac, jikes, &
Eclipse Java compiler)
- Command line style output
- Actions
- Supprt "-find" option
- "Run Ant..." should
open a dialog that only displays a single launch config (instead
of all), allowing the user to edit the config before launching (requires
support from debug platform).
- Ant Runtime
- Upgrade to Ant 1.5.1
- support "-find"
option
- External Tool Builders
- New builders will be defined/edited
as launch configurations
- Migrate existing external
tool builders to launch configurations
- Support for specifying full
or incremental build
Deferred Items (Post 2.1)
- Console
- Extension point to register regex for task output. Extension creates
a hyperlink, and error marker.
- Ant API
- There will be no public API for Ant or External Tools in 2.1
- Enhance Ant Launch Configurations
- Support for running in separate VM
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