It doesnt have to stay that way either: i think supporting ant 1.9 is
just a matter of installing it on some jenkins servers so we know it
works.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Dawid Weiss
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. Didn't know about it.
>
> Dawid
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It was intended as a requirement: We had bugs before where newer ant
>> versions would not work correctly with the build. They may still exist
>> (unsure).
>>
>> The simplest thing to do was to just support one single version of ant
>> and error out otherwise, so that its completely clear.
>>
>> Otherwise we have to figure out a way to test all these N versions we
>> support (else people will bring it up in release votes and users will
>> open bug reports why XYZ doesnt build correctly on N+4 crazy version
>> of ant).
>>
>> So I don't think we should remove this check (that you have the ant
>> version we support) without infrastructure in place to test the
>> 'additional ant versions', at least the major ones! Otherwise I really
>> see this falling on the release manager to deal with in the future to
>> verify and I do not think that is ok.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Dawid Weiss
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I think the bar was "at least" 1.8+ so perhaps it's a bug in the
>>> condition, not a requirement.
>>>
>>> Dawid
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Anyone object to letting Ant 1.9X build releases? Is there a particular
>>>> reason that the smoke tester looks for 1.8X specifically and does not allow
>>>> later?
>>>>
>>>> I'd prefer not to downgrade if I don't have to, but I will.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> - Mark
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