[GitHub] ant issue #50: Use newer Maven Ant tasks

2017-12-11 Thread bodewig
Github user bodewig commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/50 I'll have a look later and try not to be a PITA again. WRT antunit. https://github.com/apache/ant-antlibs-antunit and you are a committer ;-) --- --

[GitHub] ant issue #50: Use newer Maven Ant tasks

2017-12-11 Thread bodewig
Github user bodewig commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/50 looks good to me - you may want to add a note to WHATSNEW as well --- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For add

Re: Potential breaking change to symlink task [ was Re: Jenkins build became unstable: Ant-Build-Matrix-master-Linux » JDK 1.8 (latest) #977]

2017-12-11 Thread Jaikiran Pai
I went back and read up both these bugzilla reports again and I now realize that supporting one doesn't necessarily mean not supporting the other. BZ-43426 is about letting existing file be overwritten (irrespective of the type of the file) if the overwrite flag is true. BZ-58683 is about not o

Re: Potential breaking change to symlink task [ was Re: Jenkins build became unstable: Ant-Build-Matrix-master-Linux » JDK 1.8 (latest) #977]

2017-12-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2017-12-12, Jaikiran Pai wrote: > I went back and read up both these bugzilla reports again and I now > realize that supporting one doesn't necessarily mean not supporting > the other. BZ-43426 is about letting existing file be overwritten > (irrespective of the type of the file) if the overwri

Re: Potential breaking change to symlink task [ was Re: Jenkins build became unstable: Ant-Build-Matrix-master-Linux » JDK 1.8 (latest) #977]

2017-12-11 Thread Jaikiran Pai
So I have now pushed a fix[1] on top of my previous changes, which should accommodate both these use cases (and continue to use Java 7 APIs for symlinking). This is very useful, many thanks. We may want to modify the manual so it becomes clear that overwrite will replace regular files as well.

Re: Potential breaking change to symlink task [ was Re: Jenkins build became unstable: Ant-Build-Matrix-master-Linux » JDK 1.8 (latest) #977]

2017-12-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2017-12-12, Jaikiran Pai wrote: >>> So I have now pushed a fix[1] on top of my previous changes, which >>> should accommodate both these use cases (and continue to use Java 7 >>> APIs for symlinking). >> This is very useful, many thanks. We may want to modify the manual so it >> becomes clear t