I agree with that entirely. It will be less effort for a few to adopt the new Ant behavoir than annoy many. Furthermore, I believe many Ant newcomers will think Ant or their dev setup is "broken" given that warning.
Karsten > >On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Jesse Glick wrote: > >> On 08/18/2010 12:31 PM, Matt Benson wrote: >>> require those running such ancient buildfiles >> >> Unfortunately they need not be so ancient. I have come across more than one >> build.xml from an actively developed project which just assumed that sources >> could be compiled against org.apache.tools.ant.** without doing anything. Of >> course fixing such a script is easy if you know what is wrong, but the >> authors (or new maintainers) may not know what to do when a new Ant release >> breaks their build. >> > >Okay, maybe "ancient" was a poor choice of words, but I would still guess that >more builds than not DON'T need to compile against Ant itself. > >-Matt > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > ___________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
