> I believe this was discussed a *very* long time ago. I'm > pretty sure "Ant 2 won't work with all existing build files" > was on the website somewhere before I even started *using* Ant...
This has been here a since a short time after I started using ant and joining this list :-) I think around October/November 2000... I had my concerns way back when already :-). I think thing changed a bit since then, because Ant has become something like the "standard for building huge java applications" since then. IMHO I think it became one of the most successful and most used Java tools/applications anyways... Hey: We all did well on Ant 1 :-)! > <snip> > > If people have perfectly good working build files for Ant 1, > then they can keep them that way. I'd hope that Ant 1 will > still be available from the website. It's just that people > with Ant 1 builds and don't want to convert them to Ant 2 > (which will hopefully be an easy process, if there's a tool > for it) will have to stick to using Ant 1 and not get the > benefits from Ant 2. > > I don't think that's a major problem, personally. Oh, I think think it would be good for the general acceptance of Ant2, if - at least - many of the buildfiles/tasks used in that buildfile will still work with Ant2 without modifing the xmls. Which reminds me of another good question: If we break compatibility: Do we want to maintain Ant 1.x forever (or for ages at last)? I think we will have Ant 1 and 2 in parallel for a long time if we do so... Just like Tomcat 3.x and 4... or Probably Apache http 1.x and 2.x .... Lets see ;-) Cheers, Chris P.S.: Sorry for all that smileys :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
