Hello Bruce, I can see myself implementing the removal of the Perforce Ant tasks, this should be pretty straightforward.
I will work on this this week-end. Regards, Antoine On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote: > We've discussed this before[1] and already voted in favour of removing the > commercial tasks from Ant some time ago[2]. A complication was that we wanted > to create AntLibs for them if we couldn't get the vendors to support them > directly so that there was minimal upset for our users, but apart from the > VSS tasks that didn't happen. I did contact all the vendors at the time but I > got virtually no response. The only company that did respond, as I recall, > was Perforce. Perhaps that is why they now provide decent tasks themselves. > > So this is one instance where what we wanted to happen has happened. +1 to > removing the tasks, with a document redirect on where to get the tasks now. > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201005.mbox/browser > [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201006.mbox/browser > > On 30/01/2013 7:09 PM, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would be interested to prepare soon an Ant 1.9.0 release. >> >> In WHATSNEW I see we already have 17 fixed bugs. >> >> Are there other bugs - ideally with patches - that the community needs ? >> >> Also, Jan Matèrne had proposed previously [1] to remove the Perforce Ant >> tasks from Ant due to the availability of better tasks supplied by Perforce. >> >> Now would be a good time to remove them. >> >> Do we need a vote for that ? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Antoine >> >> [1] >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201012.mbox/%3C000601cb97a0$970bde10$c5239a30$@de%3E > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
