Building Ant 1.7beta

Bootstrapping works fine. Maybe there are bugs and it should
be smarter, but
it seems reasonable.

- Alexey.

On 8/29/06, Jesse Glick <jesse.glicksun.com> wrote:
>
> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > Sometimes we build new features that are useful
enough to apply the
> > right away in Ant's own build file.
>
> Obviously. But it seems to me that the convenience of
the many users of
> Ant (sources) outstrips the convenience of the few Ant
developers. For
> example, it is impossible to develop the Ant trunk in
NetBeans using the
> bundled Ant 1.6.5 unless you write a wrapper script
which execs
> bootstrap.sh, which is unpleasant. Similarly you could
not use a bundled
> Ant binary on Linux to run ant/build.xml targets (or
use Bash
> completions...).
>
> To Jan: I meant only keeping compatibility with the
previous official
> Ant release, in this case 1.6.5.
>
> To Kev: surely most Ant committers work on at least one
other Ant-based
> project where improvements can be seen? Or does the
Apache Foundation
> pay your rent? 
>
> Just wondering why an Ant release is expected to be
used by many
> thousands of Java programmers for every purpose you can
think of, yet
> it's not good enough for Ant itself which is a pretty
small project. I
> don't feel strongly about it though.
>
> -J.
>
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