On 18 August 2011 16:14, Gordon Sim <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/18/2011 04:09 PM, Robbie Gemmell wrote: > >> The rationale for the change was to add an extension point to the >> build system to enable client modules, such as transports and >> authentication/authorisation add-ons. The easiest way of doing this >> was the property used which has happened to involve requiring a 3 year >> old version of Ant. >> >> Should it be a policy to support things that are over 6 years old at >> this point? RHEL4? I've been seeing RHEL5 based builds getting broken >> with increasing regularity recently... >> > > I'm not suggesting it should be policy. All I was asking was for > clarification and context on the change in question to help inform any > possible proposals on alternatives. > > While we shouldn't have to contort ourselves to workaround the lack of well > established features, if there are simple alternatives that are less > exclusive that is surely a reasonable thing to consider.
I commited a change under QPID-3365 to avoid the dependency on Ant 1.7.1. The build should now be working under Ant 1.6.x once again. > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: > mailto:dev-subscribe@qpid.**apache.org<[email protected]> > >
