Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Jesse Glick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> Java 5 adds a completely new sort of problems with APIs retrofitted >> to support generics. Since Comparable is now Comparable the >> BigInteger class used to have a method int compareTo(Object) and >> now has

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Jesse Glick
Kev Jackson wrote: I can build all the ant-* jars except ant-starteam and ant-weblogic I've contacted borland regarding getting access to starteam sdk without having to sign up to some ridiculous trial/download nonsense. [...] Note that we could set up separate source roots containing phony cl

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Jesse Glick
Stefan Bodewig wrote: Say there is a method void doSomething(Object o); in a class inside the Java class library of JDK 1.3 and a new overload void doSomething(String s); was added in JDK 1.4. Any call to doSomething("") compiled on JDK 1.4 and above will pick the String signature

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-04 Thread Kev Jackson
On 5 Jun 2006, at 03:08, Steve Loughran wrote: Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step "finding a release manager" Do we have any candidates ? I'm tempted to do it but can't as I am three chapters out from fin

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-04 Thread Steve Loughran
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step "finding a release manager" Do we have any candidates ? I'm tempted to do it but can't as I am three chapters out from finishing the text of the book, then its all the o

Re: Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
, Antoine > Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:22:43 -0500 > Von: Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: Re: Ant 1.7 release > > >We simply can't. Leaving the generics/erasure problem aside, the

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Dominique Devienne
We simply can't. Leaving the generics/erasure problem aside, there is a way to ensure you don't compile against methods that are too new, but it is painful: start building with JDK 1.2, compile what hasn't been compiled by building with JDK 1.3, repeat with JDK 1.4 and 1.5. What about "cross-co

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hi, I am going to make these jars available to Kevin. Regards, Antoine Kev Jackson wrote: > A quick update regarding my situation trying to build a test release > dist. > > I can now bootstrap everything except starteam and weblogic. I'm also > having a strange issue with Echo not compiling in

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Kev Jackson
A quick update regarding my situation trying to build a test release dist. I can now bootstrap everything except starteam and weblogic. I'm also having a strange issue with Echo not compiling in eclipse (but works fine from command line). ie, I can build all the ant-* jars except ant-sta

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Conor MacNeill
Kev Jackson wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning >> >> We are still on the step "finding a release manager" >> >> Do we have any candidates ? >> > > I'd be happy to help, but before I offer

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:37, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the opp

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >> Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on >> JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the >> opposite is also true > > This leaves us i

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the opposite is also true This leaves us in a pickle unless we can guarantee that the every line of code will both

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jan Materne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one >>go and still produce jars which can run under 1.2. > > Should be possible (but I would do a test after the build...) > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/wind

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
Hi all, I'm not confirming yet to be release manager, but I'm preparing a build environment with all libs etc - so I'm edging my hat into the ring you need the libs for all the optional tasks described in the section "installing ant" of the manual. I have all the latest libs as describe

Re: AW: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
> Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:36:11 +0200 > Von: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: > Betreff: AW: Ant 1.7 release > > >Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one > >go and still produce jars which can run und

AW: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Jan.Materne
>Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one >go and still produce jars which can run under 1.2. Should be possible (but I would do a test after the build...) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html -target version Generate class files that will work o

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Kev Jackson wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning >> >> We are still on the step "finding a release manager" >> >> Do we have any candidates ? >> > > I'd be happy to help, but before I offer mys

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-05-31 Thread Kev Jackson
On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step "finding a release manager" Do we have any candidates ? I'd be happy to help, but before I offer myself as the 'release manager', what would

Ant 1.7 release

2006-05-31 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step "finding a release manager" Do we have any candidates ? Regards, Antoine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional