Hello Conor, thanks for your nice answer. I just wonder if the nightly-builds always compile .
Thanks Steff Conor MacNeill wrote: > Steff, > > It works like this > > The committers, of whom I am but one, work directly in CVS. As people send > in patches and new code, we apply those to the current code which is stored > in the CVS repository. These are the source of the CVS commit messages you > are seeing. Every night (where night is defined by someone's particular > timezone and not mine), the latest code is fetched from CVS, is compiled, > and then placed on the jakarta website as a nightly build. After some random > time the committers decide that it would be nice to have a new release. > There is no formal process for this decision. It is just a collective > judgement call. The last release was 1.2. > > To get the latest code you have two choices. > > You can checkout all the code from CVS and build it yourself or you can just > download the latest nightly build. If you have used CVS before, there is > nothing particularly hard about the first approach. If you want to code in > ant and submit patches this is definitely the way to go. The second approach > is easier overall and is appropriate if you just want to use the latest ant. > If you see a feature you like it may take a day or two to appear in the > nightly build. > > Access to CVS is described here > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html > > whilst the nightly builds are located here > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/ > > The nightly builds for Ant is a service kindly provided by Sam Ruby. Due to > some recent hardware changes at Apache, the nightly builds are currently > unavailable but this should be rectified shortly. > > Note that both the CVS code and the nightly builds are not to be considered > stable and may contain new features which have not been significantly > tested. > > Conor > > -- > Conor MacNeill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cortex eBusiness > http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: steff [mailto:steff]On Behalf Of Stephane > > Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 9:43 > > To: ant-dev > > Subject: versions > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > it seems i am a little bit lost. > > Since i decided to subscribe to the ant mailing list, > > i received a few hundreds (thousands ? ) new patch that have been > > committed. > > But i never heard about any new version . > > (i got 1.2) > > > > Where can I get the most recent version of this smashing ant ? > > > > Steff > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]
