Re: (was Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.)

2005-02-25 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> * to allow adding of jars to the current >>> classloader (would solve a *lot* of problems at the cost of >>> some issues) >>>

Re: (was Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.)

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Reilly
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * to allow adding of jars to the current classloader (would solve a *lot* of problems at the cost of some issues) http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28228 I'm willing to not cast a -1

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* to allow adding of jars to the current >classloader (would solve a *lot* of problems at the cost of >some issues) >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28228 I'm willing to not cast a -1 on it, if it is

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do people think is a good release schedule/timetable? No argument, although I'd prefer a 1.6.3 release schedule first (and my main issue here would be cutting down open bug reports). > Should we be organised, build up a list o

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Dominique Devienne wrote: Given that I don't know the task, it's difficult to gage whether the properties loaded from ${runtime.properties} are used as properties, i.e. the task also supports a or or nested element (e.g. , , , , etc...) turned into a set of properties for the JVM underneath, a

RE: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dominique Devienne wrote: > > I'd like propertyset to stay as a property selector of sort, and not go > > into the realm of actually loading or defining properties. A propertyset > > should stay has a collections of patterns to select existing prop

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Dominique Devienne wrote: From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - a way of embedding files into , so you can do file-based loading from inside anything that takes a property file. Or some easy way of going into Java tasks. I wrote my own element for this for the smartfrog tasks, and it wa

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you know, this summer will mark the two year point since Ant 1,6.0 shipped. Which means time for Ant1.7 is nearing. Hmm, Ant 1.6.0 has been released in December 2003. OK, I knew it was 2003. That's no so bad...18

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Darin Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eclipse 3.1 is coming out in June 2005 as Jan indicated. For me to have a chance to update and release Ant 1.7 within Eclipse it would be great to get an Ant release sometime in early May. Otherwise things start

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Darin Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eclipse 3.1 is coming out in June 2005 as Jan indicated. For me to > have a chance to update and release Ant 1.7 within Eclipse it would > be great to get an Ant release sometime in early May. Otherwise > things start getting locked

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you know, this summer will mark the two year point since Ant 1,6.0 > shipped. Which means time for Ant1.7 is nearing. Hmm, Ant 1.6.0 has been released in December 2003. Stefan --

RE: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - a way of embedding files into , so you can do file-based > loading from inside anything that takes a property file. Or some easy > way of going into Java > tasks. I wrote my own element for this for the smartfrog tasks, and it > was v. useful

Re: 1.7 release timetable & features.

2005-02-24 Thread Kev Jackson
you know, this summer will mark the two year point since Ant 1,6.0 shipped. Which means time for Ant1.7 is nearing. That long? Should we be organised, build up a list of features and then either start doing them or scrub them from the list? I think that without a list it would be too easy to ge