> I don't know if you follow ant-dev,

Nope.

> but there are some discussions about
> the new version of ant which are extremely scarry for me.
>
> Things like throwing exceptions when a property is not defined,
> changing the build.xml syntax, and so on.
>
> Maybe I'm crazy, but so far I did a lot of the build.xml changes every
> time a new ant was released, with all the pain of trying (without

1.5 deprecates more attrbutes, BTW (don't know if you tried building Tomcat
with it).

> success ) to make it work with the old version and the new one. I suppose
> Remy and Craig know what I'm talking about. Given that we use ant for
> testing, and we already have a lot of ant files - please at least follow
> the discussions, it'll affect us as well. I don't have the time or energy
> to try to convince Peter and the others pushing for those changes...

If we don't like Ant 2, why would we have to use it ? If it introduces big
changes in build.xml, why upgrade when Ant 1 works fine ?

Remy


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