Re: deprecations

2012-08-24 Thread Maarten Coene
I agree with Peter. I think it's important that older 3th party tasks keep working with 1.x releases of Ant. Maarten From: Peter Reilly To: Ant Developers List ; gudnabr...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:52 AM Subject: Re: depreca

Re: deprecations

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Reilly
Just had a quick look at Project. There are a lot of deprecated methods. However I do not think that most of them are deprecated correctly. Users of the api should not have to know about implementation details and changes to implementation - for example the FileUtils.getFileUtils(). I downloaded t

Re: deprecations

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Benson
Hi Peter, So does that mean you would be opposed to removing these deprecated items? Matt On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Peter Reilly wrote: > The only problem is the there are a lot > of tasks out there in the wild that have not > been compiled in a very long time. (I know > I have uses a n

Re: deprecations

2012-08-21 Thread Peter Reilly
The only problem is the there are a lot of tasks out there in the wild that have not been compiled in a very long time. (I know I have uses a number), These will most likely use the deprecated methods, especially in regard to handling of properties and references. Peter 2012/8/20 Martin Gainty :

Re: deprecations

2012-08-21 Thread Jesse Glick
On 08/20/2012 01:52 PM, Matt Benson wrote: There are lots of methods in Ant's source that have been deprecated since e.g. v1.6. Does anyone object to removing deprecated methods for Ant 1.9? I think OK so long as you are talking about members in the Java API - I guess we are still keeping co

RE: deprecations

2012-08-20 Thread Martin Gainty
Hi Matt as long as there is a new method (or new class) to replace the deprecated method (or deprectaed class) Many Thanks for your diligence! Martin __ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist v