Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-22 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: >>> Incidentally, does xerces now depend on this serializer.jar? That is, >>> does it need to be included in the distro? Or are its classes merged >>> into xerces and xalan? These are the kind of thing we need to understand >>> before we ship >>> >> >> No, there's no

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-21 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 04:14 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome wrote: >> Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >We've just upgraded in SVN_HEAD, BTW. Excellent! Thanks :-) > > >> >>> Incidentally, does xerces now depend on this serializer.jar? That is, >>> does it need to be included in the distro? Or

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-21 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jacob Kjome wrote: Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-20 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put > > it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this > > didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper > > o

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper official release of xml-commons-external (xml-apis-1.3.04.jar)

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-19 Thread Jacob Kjome
Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper official release of xml-commons-external (xml-apis-1.3.04.jar) and included much

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
Here's the official Xerces statement on JDK1.2 compatibility... They're supposed to be compatible with JDK 1.2 however no one has tested that so I can't say whether they actually are. The same is true for all of the previous releases starting from Xerces 2.6.0. These were only built and tested w

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-05 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That works for me, although I noticed something slightly surprising > when I compiled using a 1.4 and 1.5 JDK. > > [javac] '-source' > [javac] '1.3' Ant magically upgraded the -source switch to 1.3 since most JDKs don't su

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-04 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > Just wanted to note that I posted a message to the Xerces list. Here's a > > pointer to that email thread... > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=116499889520564&w=2 > > > > Jake > > > > > > Next question for

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: Just wanted to note that I posted a message to the Xerces list. Here's a pointer to that email thread... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=116499889520564&w=2 Jake Next question for them: are the classes compiled for use on 1.2? -steve --

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://ibiblio.org/maven/xerces/ I see the 2.8.1 jars and poms there. I can ping the xerces list and get them to put the 2.9.0 versions out there. What's the time frame for the next release? Is it imminent? I can work on them

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > > > I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... > > > > > > "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" > > > > > > You may be interested to know that Xerces ha

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... > > > > "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" > > > > You may be interested to know that Xerces has now released version 2.9.0 > > [1] and, along with it, a

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Giroux
On 12/1/06, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob Kjome wrote: I'm not Jake, and I'm not part of Xerces team, but I did find Xerces 2.9.0 at ibiblio.org. It was on their mirror ftp server. Is that the "repository"? Michael Giroux Jake, are you part of the Xerces team? We can do t

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote: I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" You may be interested to know that Xerces has now released version 2.9.0 [1] and, along with it, a proper official release of xml-commons-external-1.3.04 (otherwise kn