On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Robert Soesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried out exchanging my ant.jar with the one from > /~bodewig/builds/ant/20041126 and it works perfectly! How > stable/buggy is this version?
Successfully builds performs a few hundred builds of Jakarta and other Java projects every few hours <http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/buildLog.html> ;-) Quite general I'd say that the "old" tasks are at least as stable as the released ones while new stuff (the repository tasks Steve is working on, for example) are more unstable - both their API and their behavior. Of course there are potential problems if changes happen on major parts, like when I'm going to commit my modified DirectoryScanner tomorrow, which has the potential to break all tasks using FileSets. Personally I use Ant's CVS HEAD in production all the time, but I also have the privilege to fix problems I encounter immediately. I couldn't do .NET development with Ant 1.6.2 (since I use Mono), for example. My co-workers share the joy and pain of CVS HEAD. Most of the time it works extremely well, but sometimes things break and heads turn towards the local Ant guru (for some reason that's me). > Could it be a problem to just exchange the ant.jar and not the whole > package? Asked that way, the answer must be "yes". It is always possible that we've changed some internal contracts that tasks from one of the optional packages need to know about. I don't remember such a change from the top of my head, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
