On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Jesse Glick wrote: > On 08/18/2010 12:31 PM, Matt Benson wrote: >> require those running such ancient buildfiles > > Unfortunately they need not be so ancient. I have come across more than one > build.xml from an actively developed project which just assumed that sources > could be compiled against org.apache.tools.ant.** without doing anything. Of > course fixing such a script is easy if you know what is wrong, but the > authors (or new maintainers) may not know what to do when a new Ant release > breaks their build. >
Okay, maybe "ancient" was a poor choice of words, but I would still guess that more builds than not DON'T need to compile against Ant itself. -Matt > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
