On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <[email protected]> wrote: > In 1.8.0, it doesn't seem to affect older Ants (I just ran the build > with 1.7.0). > > On a side note, I'm not clear why we can't mandate a particular Ant > version. Ant 1.8.1 still works with JDK1.4 so no issues there. It's a > best practice to provide the tools with the build where possible so we > could even do that. Even if people would want to run an older Ant, > they could still use GWT's Ant (whatever version it might be) for > their GWT code (i.e. their Ant build could call a separate Ant build > for the GWT parts). Why do we need to support older Ants? It's not > like GWT works with JDK1.4.
Especially on Linux distros, many of the ones still in regular use don't have newer ants available by default. If there is a good reason to require an upgrade we can do that, but absent a good reason we shouldn't require manually installing packages on those distros. > By the way, are you sure the build works with 1.6.5? I just tried it > (without my changes) and I get I will double check, but I believe one of the internal build systems still uses 1.6.5, though it might have been upgraded. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
