Shall the newly added FTP task revisions be incorporated into release 1.6.4?
Motivation: I understand this comes in "under the wire" and may cause justifiable trepidation among some. I still favor adding it to the release because:
1) The tasks add some important new capabilities (in order of importance): a) the ability for the "newer" attribute to recognize timezone differences between client and server b) the ability to handle the "all-numeric" timestamp format that some unixes (Debian for example) are now shipping with. c) the ability to handle legacy systems that still use locale-specific timestamp formatting (becoming rare but still encountered). Documentation of the new features has also been checked in.
2) Care has been taken to avoid adding new dependency requirements to Ant. The new features require commons-net-1.4.0 and the task cannot be compiled without it, but users with an earlier version of commons-net can still use the task exactly as before. Existing scripts will function exactly as before. 3) Just to reiterate - in spite of earlier postings the the contrary, including this in release 1.6.4 WOULD NOT REQUIRE USERS TO UPGRADE COMMONS-NET. This has been tested against commons-net-1.2.2 (the previous recommended system) and all tests passed.
My vote:
-1
I dont think I've -1'd anything before, at least not in recent memory. Here is my thinking
(a) 1.6.4 is an emergency release to fix some defects that didnt show up during beta testing
(b) any feature added now would go into the release without beta testing. It runs the risk of breaking.
(c) We'd be effectively obliged to maintain the API forever. Its good to use something in a few of your own build files first to see what works, and what doesnt.
Summary: its too new a change to push into a release that we arent going to beta test.
Once Ant1.6.4 ships we can start the push towards Ant1.7. That is: no more 1.6 releases barring disasters with the 1.6.4 version, instead we can decide on the feature set and release schedule for the version of ant that will have this change, and bring out a beta in, say, july. Anyone who wants the new features should be pushed towards this public beta, which will help test the while release.
-steve
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