Thanks for volunteering. I prefer having a 1.10.0 as a signal "we have a Java8-version".
Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bode...@apache.org] > Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2016 15:11 > An: dev@ant.apache.org > Betreff: Releasing Ant 1.9.8 (and maybe 1.10.0)? > > Hi all > > it's been eight months since the last release and we currently have > accumulated some important improvements for Java9 and seem to have > fixed a serious wrapper script issue for "more traditional" Unixes. > > See https://github.com/apache/ant/blob/1.9.x/WHATSNEW for 1.9.8 > > I think that's enough to warrant a release and would volunteer to be > the RM. > > For 1.10.0 things are less clear to me. It contains all the fixes of > 1.9.8 and apart from that I only see > > * New file selectors <executable>, <symlink> and <ownedBy>. > > * New task <setpermissions> that provides the ability to set POSIX > compatible permssions via NIO's PosixFilePermission > > * AntClassLoader and its subclasses register themselves as parallel > capable. > > where <setpermissions> really only works on POSIXy file systems because > that's how NIO works. > > Not sure whether we want to cut the release nevertheless, if so I'd be > willing to manage that release as well. > > So what do you think? > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
