Monday, November 14, 2005, 9:01:38 PM, Andrew McIntyre wrote: > No, it is the version of Subversion of the user running the buildjars > target from the source distribution that matters, not the person > packaging the release. The manifest is generated by Ant at the time > that the buildjars target is run, not when the source distribution is > created.
> So, in this case, yes, the version of Subversion that you are running > is what makes the difference, and if you upgraded your Subversion to > 1.2.0 or later, you would be able to run the buildjars target as well > as if you had applied the patch that I sent. > andrew I know you are right - I tried the same thing on a machine which has Subversion 1.2.3 installed, and it worked without applying the patch. It just seemed a little "illogical" to me at first, because I never explicitly associated svn with the source code in any way, I just downloaded and extracted an archive and executed Ant. I still don't quite understand how and why subversion is used in this case. I don't know a lot about the inner workings of Ant, Subversion or the Derby release- and build processes, so please bear with me. Would you like to explain this briefly (if possible) to me? (I.e. the "how" and "why" part, not the inner workings part ;) ) I assumed it has something to do with how the changenumber.properties file is generated. Thanks! -- John
