At 07:07 16/8/00 -0500, you wrote: >I'm reading through this e-mail list, and getting notification of CVS >submissions, and quite frankly, I'm amazed at the amount of churn for the >Ant product. Great going! > >My question is, when will ant be releasing the next milestone build, >possibly 1.2? What are the plans for rel 1.2 and for 2.0, or is there a >game plan at all?
I aren't a comiiter but I estimate there is at least a few months before it happens. Both Conor and Stefan (especially Stefan) have been putting in a bit of work but there is still a bit more to go :P. Game plan was in spec document a while back but it has subtly shifted and I believe the only written place is in mail archive. Basically from what I can tell the following are the major shifts. * Everything gets interpreted at runtime - including property expansion. * Notion of objects that are not Strings can be used as attributes of tasks. (ie you can have Files/FileSets/etc) * Notion of "Sets" added so you can have classpath sets, path sets, proeprty sets etc. * load things through classloader so there is less having ugly hacks for java tools that work in different classpaths * Homogenize the patterns in base tasks so that they all work similarly. * add more error checking in tasks (some currently fail silently) there is prolly other things but those are the ones from head right now :p Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
