Bug report for Ant [2016/09/18]

2016-09-18 Thread bugzilla
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| | OPN=ReopenedVER=Verified(Skipped Closed/Resolved)   |
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| |   | Severity: BLK=Blocker CRI=Critical  REG=Regression  MAJ=Major   |
| |   |   MIN=Minor   NOR=NormalENH=Enhancement TRV=Trivial |
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| |   |   |  | Description  |
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| 5003|Opn|Blk|2001-11-21|exec task does not return after executed command f|
| 6606|Opn|Enh|2002-02-21|META-BUG problems with delegating classloaders|
| 7712|New|Enh|2002-04-03|Provide patternset support for VSSGET task?   |
| 8294|New|Enh|2002-04-19|: Allow  and  to app|
| 8866|New|Enh|2002-05-07|Signal handling in java task  |
| 8895|New|Enh|2002-05-08|ant and/or antcall should support forking |
| 8972|New|Enh|2002-05-10|allow property expansion in  property v|
| 8981|New|Enh|2002-05-10|Tar task command additional features  |
| 9294|New|Enh|2002-05-21|[PATCH] optional/j2ee/ServerDeploy OC4J Support   |
| 9995|Ass|Enh|2002-06-19|MKS Source Integrity tasks|
|10020|New|Enh|2002-06-19|'s dependency behaviour should be more con|
|10231|New|Enh|2002-06-25|Need access to current file in SQLExec|
|10283|New|Enh|2002-06-27|Add a destfile to the uptodate task   |
|10402|New|Enh|2002-07-02|adding the ability of html like whitespace preserv|
|3|New|Enh|2002-07-24|keytool task  |
|11560|Opn|Enh|2002-08-08|Taskdef does not apply reverseLoader policy on sta|
|12267|New|Enh|2002-09-03|Add ability to unzip into separate folders|
|12292|New|Enh|2002-09-04|[PATCH] enable  tag inside tar|
|12334|New|Enh|2002-09-05|REQUEST: Ant task doesn't allow attachment of a bu|
|12518|New|Enh|2002-09-11|Gunzip & BUnZip2 add filesets, patternsets, and ov|
|12765|New|Enh|2002-09-18|"rmdir" and "deltree" patches for ftp task enhance|
|12964|New|Enh|2002-09-24|ANTLR only takes one input file at a time |
|13047|Inf|Enh|2002-09-26|Support for  and  on O|
|13371|New|Enh|2002-10-07|[PATCH] Contributed new CvsExportDiff task|
|13847|New|Nor|2002-10-22|pvcs task: wrong option (-r) specified for get (sh|
|13934|New|Enh|2002-10-24|Translate task shouldn't load default locale prope|
|13939|New|Enh|2002-10-24|Translate task should have better key matching cap|
|14320|New|Enh|2002-11-06|copy fileset followsymlinks="false" does not copy |
|14393|New|Enh|2002-11-08|Support use of jndi within ant|
|14512|New|Enh|2002-11-13|Allow creating database connection similar to  with  does not spot bad symlin|
|15149|New|Enh|2002-12-06|Replace task  |
|15244|New|Enh|2002-12-10|tar task should be able to store symbolic links as|
|15430|New|Enh|2002-12-17|Enhancement to ReplaceRegExp.java |
|15596|New|Enh|2002-12-21|Identity mapper in uptodate task. |
|15747|New|Enh|2003-01-01|change tasks (e.g. Ant) to take urls as well as fi|
|15853|New|Enh|2003-01-07|Allow to plug-in different XML Catalog resolver in|
|15949|Opn|Enh|2003-01-10|please provide links to docs.xml and jakarta-site2|
|16131|New|Enh|2003-01-15|not possible to suppress "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" messag|
|16427|New|Enh|2003-01-26|Output return value of setLastModified/document be|
|16469|New|Enh|2003-01-27|Apply task should allow parallel execution on diff|
|16494|New|Enh|2003-01-28|[PATCH] accessibility of Ant documentation|
|16562|New|Enh|2003-01-29|Can not accept characters  from keyboard in a thre|
|16860|New|Enh|2003-02-06|Silent or Debug a single target   |
|16896|New|Enh|2003-02-07|Support in ProjectHelper / ProjectHelperImpl to op|
|17074|New|Enh|2003-02-14|Contribution for WLSTOP   |
|17181|New|Nor|2003-02-18|Build fails while trying to get VSS files by label|
|17372|New|Enh|2003-02-25|Enhancement of replace Task   |
|17742|New|Maj|2003-03-06|PVCS task generates GET with promotion group incor|
|17781|New|Enh|2003-03-07|name attribute of record task is not relative to b|
|17829|New|Enh|2003-03-10|Allow ejbjar task to accept nested manifest   |
|17850|New|Nor|2003-03-10|PVCS task dont work with promotion group  |
|17961|New|Enh|2003-03-13|New task to collect services from a JAR   |

Re: Multi-Release JARs

2016-09-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-09-17, Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote:

>> * Multi-Release JARs need a special manifest attribute, we should add an
>>   attribute to the jar task that sets this.

> I dont think so. We could set this flag by ourself if the
>  is set.

Agreed. People who want to manually put together the jar would have to
set the attribute themselves, then.

> We discussed also the possibility of merging different jars.
> Say you have a Java8 jar, a Java9 jar and a Java10 jar, you could merge
> these into a multirelease jar.

> Because of the different classfile versions, the common files of these jars
> arent identical, so we cant find them easily. So the easy, but not smart,
> solution ends in having the common files in every version branch of the jar.


  
  
  ...


could work that way. Likely would need to perform some fiddling WRT
manifest attributes.

> Another idea I had (for few minutes) is combining the jar'ing with the
> compiling.
>   
>  
>   point to
> Java9 only 
>   point to
> Java10 only 
>  would do three compile runs now
> * default: Java8
> * version=9: Java9, with classes from previous runs on classpath (havent
> thought about the identical names yet ... ;)
> * version=10: Java10, ...
> Finally create the MRJar.

I guess configuration of the task will be quite longish but I can see
how this would streamline hte process.

Stefan

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