[xep-support] RE: quiet ant task

[Dima Rogozin]

>>> 
>>> How quiet? 
>> 
>> Real quiet. 
>> 
>The question is serious. The logging facility either has to provide 
>rigorious means to specify the level of logging, or should rely on an 
>external filter. Choosing any single level of suppression usually turns 
>out to be a problem for users, and a source of further complaint. 

>That's why the Integration and Connectivity Kit includes the full 
>source code for the Ant task, allowing to pass a different logger and 
>customize it as much as a particular installation demands. 
>On the other hand, Ant itself provides filtering capabilities for 
>standard error output, which are powerful to satisfy the needs of 
>filtering without burdening the code with arbirtrarily chosen options. 

I agree with you. 
If you want to stay generic you might conside implementing support for
<filterchain> nexted tags in ant task. This way any filtering can be
archived. So far I do not see other a way to filter output using pure ANT
means.

D.

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