Re: AW: Building Ant 1.7beta

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: Especially: you know only the Ant src-version present (the current version). You dont know which binary-version of Ant is installed (Ant 1.6.5, 1.5, 14?) That means your buildfile must be "very" bwc ... Basically we improve Ant and add new features so that we can refactor the

Re: AW: Building Ant 1.7beta

2006-08-29 Thread Kev Jackson
> Especially: you know only the Ant src-version present (the current > version). > You dont know which binary-version of Ant is installed (Ant 1.6.5, 1.5, > 14?) > That means your buildfile must be "very" bwc ... Basically we improve Ant and add new features so that we can refactor the ant build.

AW: Building Ant 1.7beta

2006-08-28 Thread Jan.Materne
>> I've grumbled in the past that it is not very friendly for Ant trunk >> sources to be unbuildable by the current Ant release, but another >> committer (I forget now who) said this was intentional...? > >Might have been me. > >Sometimes we build new features that are useful enough to >apply th

Re: AW: Building Ant 1.7beta

2006-08-28 Thread Mark McKay
Running build.bat alone was causing the error message I posted earlier. Not sure why it was filing, but I couldn't build with the .bat file. Mark McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bootstrap.bat should be run automatically from build.bat [1]: if exist bootstrap\lib\ant.jar ... MEANS "ALREA

AW: Building Ant 1.7beta

2006-08-28 Thread Jan.Materne
bootstrap.bat should be run automatically from build.bat [1]: if exist bootstrap\lib\ant.jar ... MEANS "ALREADY BOOTSTRAPPED" ... goto runAnt call bootstrap.bat Jan [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/build.bat >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Alexey Solofnenko [