Thanks, I have closed the bug report as WONTFIX. I found out that Location and RuntimeConfigurable are the 2 only Ant classes which are serializable.
Maybe someone wanted to save the state of an Ant run in order to be able to restart later ? Regards, Antoine On Apr 28, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Conor MacNeill wrote: > Yes, I think WONTFIX is the correct approach. > > I don't think we want to give any guarantees about compatibility of > object serializations across Ant versions. I think object > serialization is not really intended for long term object storage, > more just for object transmission. > > Do we know why Ant objects are being serialized at all? > > Conor > > > On 29 April 2013 07:03, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The bug report 54843 complains about the introduction of a serialVersionUID >> in Location.java between Ant 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 >> as it prevents the user from loading using Ant 1.9.0 serialized files >> created with Ant 1.8.4 >> >> It looks like this change has introduced a form of incompatibility between >> 1.8.4 and 1.9.0 but now I would be tempted to say that it would be a problem >> to revert the introduction of these serialVersionUID fields. >> >> I am tempted to close the bug report as WONTFIX. >> >> Thoughts ? >> >> Antoine >> >> On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:52 PM, bugzi...@apache.org wrote: >> >>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54843 >>> >>> --- Comment #1 from Antoine Levy-Lambert <anto...@apache.org> --- >>> The private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L was added between Ant >>> 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 in Revision 1375137 as part of a series of Java 5 >>> updates. >>> >>> It looks like this is a change which has broken some degree of compatibility >>> between Ant 1.8.4 and Ant 1.9.0 but this is a one time change. >>> >>> This change should have been documented in WHATSNEW and ReleaseNotes as a >>> change that could break older environment. >>> >>> I will revert to the dev at ant.apache.org list to see whether we should >>> close >>> this bug report as WONTFIX - my personal inclination. >>> >>> -- >>> You are receiving this mail because: >>> You are the assignee for the bug. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
