On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:02:39 -0400, David Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed a 1.5+ feature that is going into Ant 1.7. Many months > ago, I had a 1.4+ feature that I wanted to get put into Ant, but it was > rejected because it wouldn't be backward compatible to version 1.2.2. > Has something changed? If so, I'd like to offer the <hotswap> target. It > has a home at http://hotswap.dev.java.net/ and I'd be happy to > contribute that to the main ant project. I've been using it at work in > our builds for all that time and it is robust and ready to be used.
Assuming the code is self contained and isolated from bootstrap.bat/sh, we can have optional version code in the system, sorry if that was an issue before.
Having had a look at hotswap, I dont know whether to be impressed or scared. Are you using this for hot deployment to a live system, wow. Not in production, one would hope.
At the very least we can link to it on the web site, it is a very wild idea. As to whether we'd want it in the core (putting aside the fact that you'd need to add an apache-compatible license ), I am scared of its powers. Only to be used in the hands of the competent, i think. But its potentially no worse than any normal debugger. And it is certainly a task closely related to the build/deploy process.
So I will ask other people to give their opinion.
-steve
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