Craig, No sweat. The ant "tradition" has been to deprecate a feature in one release and remove it by the next. My motivation was to keep the baggage down, going forward. It is not a big deal, however.
Conor -- Conor MacNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cortex eBusiness http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2000 16:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Removal of deprecated tasks > > > Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > > Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am planning the removal of the tasks which were deprecated in ant > > > 1.2 such as deltree, copydir, etc. > > > > I was more or less thinking about keeping them even in Ant 1.3 (and > > deprecate some other things on the way as well) and remove them when > > switching to Ant2 - that way we wouldn't break 1.2 buildfiles with 1.3. > > > > This is not a -1, more a +0 or something. > > > > I'm not an Ant developer (just a user when building Tomcat) so my vote > doesn't really mean anything ... but please do not do this! > > We already know that 2.0 will likely (hah -- assume it's an ironclad > certainty :-) break existing build files. Given that, would it be such > a > tremendous problem to let current build files work through the 1.x > family? > That way, we will only have one more MUST change instead of two. > > > > Stefan > > Craig McClanahan >
