Hi, I upgraded from 1.6.5 to 1.7.1 a few weeks ago. Everything is working fine.
I use antcontrib and ant4eclipse a lot. No problems so far. I had to upgrade because zipfileset is supported for the junit-task in 1.7.1 but not in 1.6.5 and I had to run tests out of a jar-file. Hope this helps a bit. Greetings -- Jürgen Knuplesch -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Gilbert Rebhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. November 2008 21:17 An: Ant Users List Betreff: Upgrade from 1.6.5 to 1.7.1 Hi, i want to upgrade from ant 1.6.5 to 1.7.1 Some questions, hope for some answers/tips due to your practical experience. Given is a workflow, with a bunch of selfwritten tasks, macrodefs/scriptdefs (mostly ruby),running on windows 2000/ 2003/XP and AIX, with sun jdk 1.5.0_11 1. Are there any gotchas i have to be aware of, means are their any standard tasks/types that behave different from 1.6.5, maybe only in special circumstances ? 2. Is Ant 1.7.1 fully downwardly compatible, means just switching the ant version without changing my scripts doesn't break the workflow ? Maybe it's only about using newer versions of bsf.jar ... etc. ? 3. What are the most significant new features one should get used to ? 4. Which new features should be used where possible because of significant performance boost ? 5. Any of the common Ant addons, like f.e. antcontrib, antelope, antxtras that do not work with ant 1.7.1 ? !! and finally !! i need arguments to convince my boss to upgrade a "hey boss, it's almost christmas ..." won't be enough ;-))) Thanks for any hints and tips. Regards, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
