Greetings, all,
Cam reported a problem with the 7.1 stable binary release today: the jar files that need
to be copied into <ant>/lib are not provided in the binary distributions. This means that
the all.junit task will fail when verifying the installation if you're using a fresh
version of Ant--the updateAntLib command won't find the needed junit.jar file and copy it
into <ant>/lib.
This seems to have crept in sometime after 7.0; I've had email with several external
sites and this problem has not been reported until Cam's report today. The fix took a
couple of minutes and one line of code; the missing jar files be available in binary
distributions starting tomorrow.
Because this will definitely mess up first time users, I'm inclined to make a 7.2 stable
release in the next couple of days. Since it's so soon after the 7.1 release, and since
it's basically just a bug fix, I'm inclined to not make a general announcement, but
rather just update the Hackystat home page and links so that anyone downloading the
latest stable release will get a good one.
Let me know if you foresee any problems with this. Hopefully HackyInstaller is
stable!
Cheers,
Philip
