Stefane Bailliez wrote: > > There are some nasty bugs fixed between JDK versions, I want all to benefit > immediately
And there aren't some nasty bugs fixed between Ant versions? For that matter, aren't some nasty versions fixed between OS versions (for whatever OS you happen to be running?) For everybody, there are some tools which are merely installed. Where this line is drawn varies. For many outside of the immediate Ant dev community, Ant is on the other side of this line. > Gump runs using 'HEAD' being on the thirdparties and projects. If I want to > build using a particular build label and that's it. I hadn't mentioned Gump. I mearly use Gump for daily development and to warn others of impending changes. When I build official releases, I depend solely on released versions of everything (generally the latest ones). Again, FWIW, I support the removal of deprecated features for which active users can't be identified. And these discussions typically go round in circles without making forward progress unless there is a focus on specific items to be removed. Blanket statements that nothing can ever be removed are provably equivalent to saying that bugs can't be fixed and features can't be added. And wanton removal of features without regard to impact on the community which depends on Ant would be downright silly. Concrete examples: IMHO, it is time to move beyond the XSLTLiaison notion. This bloats the code, makes things more difficult to maintain, and tools like Xalan1 which did not support the API are long since removed from maintanance, the web site, cvs etc. On the other hand, removal of the jarfile attribute would just plain be silly. Pretty much everybody I know of ignores those deprecation warnings, which sets a bad precident as once you get into the habit of ignoring some warnings you miss the really important ones. Finally, the code that supports the attribute is pretty much self contained. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
