Due to some rather major changes today we provide another release candidate to be found at <http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/release/v1.2rc/> the old archives have been overwritten.
The major changes are (1) <ejbc> has been reverted to the old version (as of Ant 1.1) that doesn't run in the same VM as Ant and doesn't know about jikes. There have been problems with the custom classloader that couldn't be resolved in time for the release of Ant 1.2. (2) SYSTEM entities with file URIs are now handled by Ant instead of the XML parser (to be exact Ant resolves the URI instead of the parser). This needs extended testing. The following bugs in Ant 1.2rc1 have been fixed: * MacOS X is now considered UNiX with respect to <chmod> * Ant can be installed in a directory containing spaces on Windows. * javac will use the specified logfile even if running the modern compiler. * no more stack traces on compilation failures. * several documentation updates.
