Re: [Bug 54843] java.io.InvalidClassException: org.apache.tools.ant.Location

2013-05-02 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
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

Re: [Bug 54843] java.io.InvalidClassException: org.apache.tools.ant.Location

2013-04-28 Thread Conor MacNeill
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 obje

Re: [Bug 54843] java.io.InvalidClassException: org.apache.tools.ant.Location

2013-04-28 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
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 betwee