you know, this summer will mark the two year point since Ant 1,6.0 shipped. Which means time for Ant1.7 is nearing.
What do people think is a good release schedule/timetable?
Or to put it differently, what do people want in *and stable* before then?
Things I must have:
- <libraries> with security & docs.
- WAR/EAR <lib> option to flatten libraries pulled in. Makes it trivial to embed <libraries> defined stuff.
Things i'd like
- a way of embedding files into <propertyset>, so you can do file-based loading from inside anything that takes a property file. Or some easy way of going <propertyfile file="foo" required="true" /> into Java tasks. I wrote my own element for this for the smartfrog tasks, and it was v. useful. But being LGPL I can't paste it back in :(
- a way of embedding <libraries> inside a <classpath> declaration.
<java classname="org.apache.axis.monitor.TCPMon" >
<classpath>
<libraries >
<library project="ws-axis" artifact="axis" version="1.2" />
</libraries>
</classpath>
</java>- <setproxy> to take a file of proxy settings; if file is absent do nothing, if present read in the props (merging in ant properties) and then set properties from there.
- local properties in macros.
- various contributed patches that have been on bugzilla for a while and look useful.
-http tasks in sandbox to become an antlib.
Should we be organised, build up a list of features and then either start doing them or scrub them from the list?
-steve
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