Hi,
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> -Original Message-
> From: Magesh Umasankar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:37 AM
> To: Ant Developers List; user@ant.apache.org
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Noted. We (I) will ensure that the main
distribution directory is specified in
future announcements.
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Erik Abele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Magesh Umasankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ant Developers List&quo
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd like to throw this up again. What are peoples thoughts on the
following
>
> 1. Make Ant 1.6.x the last JDK 1.1 release. This would be clearly
documented
I would say 1.5.x so long as x is not frozen. IOW, if there
are
+1
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:45 AM
Subject: [VOTE] JDK 1.1 support
> Hi,
>
> This is to formalize the discussions which have gone on on the dev and
user
> lists. Please indicate your vote. Eve
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd like to get Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 out pretty soon and gve it a couple of
weeks
> to get tested. Something like a Beta by 24th and two week's beta period.
+0 for the schedule (only because I will not be able to
actively help
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd like to propose this vote for the Ant 1.5.3 release plan:
>
> Mon 24-March-2003
> I will build Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1
>
> The primary purpose of this release is to correct a few bugs discovered in
Ant
> 1.5.2 after its releas
+1
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: VOTE: new committer: Jesse Stockall
>
> I nominate Jesse Stockall as a committer as he likes spending time fixing
+1
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: [PMC VOTE] ANt 1.5.3 Release
> I am about to build Ant 1.5.3. There are just a few minor changes from the
> Beta.
>
> Please indicate y
I will get to it - please be patient, Jan.
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Patch] es to be submitted
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Jan Materne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > http://na
+1
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: [VOTE] Antoine Levy-Lambert as committer
> Hi all,
>
> Antoine has continuously been sending in patches since months now,
> he's play
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors
ExtendSelector.java
> umagesh 2003/04/14 10:21:27
>
> Modified:src/main/org/apache/tools/ant ComponentHelper.java
> IntrospectionHelper.j
I am sending a summary of the commit I made because ezmlm-reject said:
"fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 10 bytes (#5.2.3)"
umagesh 2003/04/14 11:42:16
Modified:docs/manual tasksoverview.html
docs/manual/OptionalTasks clearcase.html
src
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors
ExtendSelector.java
> I have some questions about this patch
>
> On
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:
ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/clearcase CCLock.java
CCMkbl.java CCMklabel.java CCMklbtype.java CCRmtype.java CCUnlock.java
ClearCase.java
> Magesh Umasankar wrote:
> > I am sending a s
Pass 1 completed. Static method no longer used.
**
* Etc.: A sign to make others believe that *
* you know more than you actually do. *
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL P
+1
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:00 AM
Subject: [PMC VOTE] Adoption of Bylaws
> PMC members,
>
> I'd like to move towards adoption of the bylaws draft.
>
http://cvs.apache.org/vi
+1
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: [VOTE] Peter Reilly as committer
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose Peter Reilly as an Ant committer. He has submi
en ('@').
*
* Example:
* <filterproperties/>
* Or:
* <filterreader
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.FilterProperties"/>
*
* @author David Kavanagh
* @author Magesh Umasankar
*/
public final class FilterProperties
extends BaseFilterReader
implements Ch
+1 on this implementation of a much felt need.
Kudos to Peter for fighting thru' seemingly
endlesss threads ;-)
Cheers,
Magesh
P.S. Please prefix mark the subject line
with [VOTE] to ensure the message gets
the attention it deserves.
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From: "peter reilly" <[EMAIL PR
Though we haven't been following the practise of
always creating a bug report before fixing it,
I think it would be a good approach to include it
in Bugzilla. The reason is some user may come across
this issue before the release and may logically
search Bugzilla to see if the error has already
bee
x handling of $)
Peter
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:22, Magesh Umasankar wrote:
> I will take a look at commiting it in the next few days...
>
> - Original Message -
> From: David Kavanagh
> To: Ant Developers List
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:52 AM
> Subject: Re:
Creating patches to submit to Ant can be standardized as well
as made easier with the following patch.xml file. If you
consider this useful, I will add it to the repository. Please
comment.
[cvs] cvs [diff aborted]: Bad CVSROOT.
The C:\Profile\mat\.cvspass contains the line
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvspublic Ay=0=h -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Magesh Umasankar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 3. Juni 2003 21:07
> An: Ant Developers List
Thanks for pointing it out, Jan. I will commit a patch
shortly.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: patch.xml --> problems.xml
During visiting the Homepage I saw that the Problems-Page
(http://ant.apache.org
The Shar task creates a Unix shell script that extracts
one or more files from within its body and executes
additional shell commands. It UUEncodes the files
added to the archive unless specified otherwise.
Foreseen use-cases include being able to create
an installer with Ant as its internal en
Just to put this into perspective:
Of the 420 open 'bug' reports:
264 of them are enhancement requests.
156 of them are actual problem reports.
Of those 156 PRs,
9 are marked as Blockers (Patches available for 3)
2 are marked as Critical (Patches available for Zarro)
32 are marked as Major
> bodewig 2003/06/23 04:54:14
>
> Modified:.patch.xml
> Log:
> Throw in copyright year check as well (you knew I'd do that, no? 8-).
;-)
Welcome back!
Cheers,
Magesh
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Antoine,
I get a vague idea of what you are suggesting, but t would be easier to
comment if you can share
the code you are proposing.
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 2
+1
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From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: [VOTE] Jan Materne as committer
> I'd like to propose Jan Materne as an Ant committer. I think his
contribution
> in recent mont
To retain backwards compatibility, the old as
well as the new methods may live together.
Ant's IntrospectionHelper knows that it should
pick the method that takes in a File as its
parameter. The String version should be
reworked to invoke the new method.
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From: "Antoi
What about network shares that are not mapped to a
drive letter? Don't they begin with \\MachineName ?
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > is user.dir
+1 on the overall plan.
+0 on making a release without a beta/rc cycle.
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:46 AM
Subject: [VOTE] Ant 1.5.4 Release Plan
> No long winded plan as this
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Apart from the reason I've mentioned (only a handful of well tested
> changes), there is another one. If we make an RC, people will expect
> that we fix bugs found in that RC. We already know about bugs in it,
> namely th
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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So I went ahead and signed the file and put the signature on
> archive.apache.org. It would be nice if anybody using PGP and in
> particular using PGP on Windows could verify the signature because of
> this comment by Mages
All:
Thank you for welcoming back into the ant-dev community.
Cheers,
Magesh
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From: Antoine Lévy-Lambert
> Hi,
> I would like to propose a release plan for voting :
> - features included in 1.6 : all the features currently present in head
> - freeze date for 1.6 branch : Monday, September 22 13:00 GMT
> - availability of ANT_16_B1 binaries : within one week of the freeze of
We kept the manual of the final released version and
not the beta version.
If there are no space issues, let us consider having
the released version as well as the beta version of
the manual online, after clearly displaying that the
beta manual is in fact beta (using a background image
reading BET
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Then why not put the actual CVS version online?
> With another background image...
The historical 'problem' has been that betas did not
get a good enough visibility to be well tested. Having
the beta manual online may be a catalyst to
Is this a good enough image? Rubberstamp-like...
http://cvs.apache.org/~umagesh/beta.png
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From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I will take care of this.
> Is it OK if I check in the CSS stylesheet as
> docs/manual/stylesheet/antmanual.css ?
>
> the m
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Now we have three images, should we put them all on a website for vote?
Nah. Too much energy would be wasted for such
a small thing. The message is what is important
IMHO. Jan or Antoine, take your pick. I did it
yesterday only becau
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From: "Antoine Lévy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> There have been some bugs fixed since the first ant1.6beta.
>
> Thanks Stefan particularly.
+1
>
> I am thinking about preparing a second beta on Thursday evening (October
> 16th).
+1
>
> I would also like to make
I'll try to. I'll go a bit slow on this as it is not
going to hamper the 1.6 release.
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From: "Antoine Lévy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cool Magesh,
>
> can you add the beta.png and the stylesheet to the HEAD branch too ?
> Cheers,
> Antoine
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Hi,
I'd like to introduce the concept of a DispatchTask to Ant. This class may
be subclassed by tasks that perform multiple operations depending upon a
parameter. Currently, the task-writer would be using if...else if...else
constructs. Extending from this class would make it more elegant. Use
Subject:RE: DispatchTask
From: Dominique Devienne
Date: 2004-06-02 18:50:53
> Hi Magesh. It's been a long time ;-)
:-)
> What's the advantage of this other writing different tasks, possibly with
> the usual Java code re-use? Especially if different modes require
different
> param
From: Stefan Bodewig
Date: 2004-06-04 12:45:50
Hi Stefan,
> > I'd like to introduce the concept of a DispatchTask to Ant.
>
> Do you think a task with a mode/action that selects the method to run
> instead of execute is really that common?
Well, it is a pretty common pattern used to
Subject:RE: DispatchTask
From: Dominique Devienne
Date: 2004-06-04 15:14:02
> public static void dispatchAction(String action, Task target) { ... }
>
> or
>
> public static void dispatchAction(String action, Object target) { ... }
>
> to make it fully bean friendly.
>
> Then i
Subject:RE: DispatchTask
From: Dominique Devienne
Date: 2004-06-06 17:50:23
> So if I need to derive from something else that DispatchTask, I can simply
> implement Dispatchable and don't even need an execute method, since you've
> modified the introspection code too. Clever!
For
From: umagesh () apache ! org
Date: 2004-06-10 18:01:47
> umagesh 2004/06/10 11:01:47
>
> Modified:src/main/org/apache/tools/ant Task.java TaskAdapter.java
>UnknownElement.java
> src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/dispatch DispatchTask.java
>
From: Steve Loughran
Date: 2004-06-17 9:27:18
> I am now convinced we need local properties; without
> it macrodef doesnt work fully.
Why do you need them? I typically append an attribute
value to a property name to get the unique property that
I want.
I have had reasonable succes
From: Matt Benson
Date: 2004-06-23 15:02:54
> I cringe at the thought of the number of "unique
> properties" that could be floating about resulting
> from this...
Is the user community complaining? The only issue
that seems to come up every now and then is lack of
straight-forward
From: Peter Reilly
Date: 2004-06-23 16:23:48
> are some cases where true local properties would be more easily
like...?
> The task is interesting. I am concerned however about
> how third party task containers would work with it.
If the third-party container would like to support
Subject:Re: and local
From: Wascally Wabbit
> Why would BreakException subclass from BuildException? It's a
Point taken. So long as it is some sort of RuntimeException, it is
good enough.
> Also as a developer responsible for lots of task container code,
> I'm not thrilled with the
From: Matt Benson
Date: 2004-06-23 17:43:46
> code? So no, having local variables does not give us
> anything we can't do, but it does save us having to
That is what I was trying to ensure.
> pollute the Project properties with e.g. 500 useless
> properties.
-0. I don't think the
From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez"
Date: 2004-06-24 11:30:33
> But you are changing the contract of .
Easy to provide backwards compatibility here -
where breakable is false by default.
Similar attributes may be introduced to other behavior
altering task containers.
Cheers,
Magesh
From: Stefan Bodewig
Date: 2004-06-29 10:00:28
> * Release Candidate on Friday July 2
>
> * If nothing major happens, Final Release on July 16.
+1
Cheers,
Magesh
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Hi,
First of all, thanks, Antoine for getting out the beta today.
I felt the need for a condition today. I am aware
of the different techniques used - i.e., using the ant.version
property or using and checking for a classname
that is unique to a particular release of Ant. usually
works ok fo
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