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 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
