Steve Cohen wrote:
Shall the newly added FTP task revisions be incorporated into release 1.6.4?
I'm withdrawing this vote request.
Although commons-net functions as expected, the relationship with the FTP task is a little more complicated than I'd thought, and those who have expressed fears are correct in doing so, in spite of any carping I might still want to do about remarks indicating that the remarkers considered this is an unwanted maintenance chore being thrust upon them rather than something motivated in the first place by bug reports and feature requests in Ant's own bug system.
I had assumed that tying commons-net timezone functionality into the task's "newer" logic would be simpler than it has turned out to be. There are still a few wrinkles I need to work out.
I apologise if you felt I was carping; its not unwanted maintenance, its welcome change, and you have done some excellent work. I particularly like your trick of doing an in-package import to get the stuff, and am running against commmons-net 1.4.0 today (and using it and the new tasks as the basis for the updated section in the second edition of Erik and my ant book.). I dont have any issue with change. I just dont believe in premature releases of untested stuff.
Since Steve Loughran is talking about a July release rather than the six months I'd heard bandied about earlier, I am less insistent on getting it in for 1.6.4.
I'd estimate a summer release of 1.7beta, with a fairly unhurried program fielding requests and stabilising things. The Plan Of Record is in the Wiki, though without any dates. I am currently doing the slideware for the europe apachecon on the subject, and it would really help me if there was a release then, though with the deadline for slides being friday, I am going to have to avoid the subject of changes to import, and other major pending changes. I can talk about the new release of the maven2 repository tasks though :)
-steve
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