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.



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