Author: bodewig
Date: Mon Aug 24 13:08:44 2009
New Revision: 807196
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=807196&view=rev
Log:
Text flow, some typos, uniform way of addressing Bugziall tickets
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/WHATSNEW
Modified: ant/core/trunk/WHATSNEW
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/WHATSNEW?rev=807196&r1=807195&r2=807196&view=diff
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--- ant/core/trunk/WHATSNEW (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/WHATSNEW Mon Aug 24 13:08:44 2009
@@ -4,47 +4,52 @@
Changes that could break older environments:
-------------------------------------------
-* Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later.
+ * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later.
-* Improved handling of InterruptException (lets suppose someone/thing is
- trying to kill the thread when we receive an InterruptException),
- when an InterruptException is received, we do not wait anymore in a while
- loop till the end time has been reached. Bugzilla report 42924.
-
-* Refactor PropertyHelper and introspection APIs to make extension more
- granular and support setting task/type attribute values to objects
- decoded by custom PropertyEvaluator delegates. Also add <propertyhelper>
- task for registering delegates and/or replacing the registered PropertyHelper
- instance. Bugzilla report 42736.
-
-* Added a restricted form of typedef called <componentdef>. This allows
- definition of elements that can only be within tasks or types. This
- method is now used to define conditions, selectors and selectors. This
- means that tasks may now have nested conditions just by implementing
- the Condition interface, rather than extending ConditionBase. It also
- means that the use of namespaces for some of the selectors introduced
- in Ant 1.7.0 is no longer necessary.
- Implementing this means that the DynamicElement work-around introduced
- in Ant 1.7.0 has been removed.
- Bugzilla report 40511.
-
-* In the <touch> task when a <mapper> is used, the millis and datetime
- attributes now override the time of the source resource if provisioned.
- Bugzilla report 43235.
-
-* Remove fall-back mechanism for references that are not resolved
- during normal runtime execution.
-
-* FileUtils.createTempFile now actually creates the file.
- The TempFile task still does not create the file by default, can be
instructed
- to do so however using a new parameter.
- Bugzilla report 33969.
+ * Improved handling of InterruptException (lets suppose someone/thing
+ is trying to kill the thread when we receive an
+ InterruptException), when an InterruptException is received, we do
+ not wait anymore in a while loop till the end time has been
+ reached.
+ Bugzilla Report 42924.
+
+ * Refactor PropertyHelper and introspection APIs to make extension
+ more granular and support setting task/type attribute values to
+ objects decoded by custom PropertyEvaluator delegates. Also add
+ <propertyhelper> task for registering delegates and/or replacing
+ the registered PropertyHelper instance.
+ Bugzilla Report 42736.
+
+ * Added a restricted form of typedef called <componentdef>. This
+ allows definition of elements that can only be within tasks or
+ types. This method is now used to define conditions, selectors and
+ selectors. This means that tasks may now have nested conditions
+ just by implementing the Condition interface, rather than extending
+ ConditionBase. It also means that the use of namespaces for some of
+ the selectors introduced in Ant 1.7.0 is no longer necessary.
+ Implementing this means that the DynamicElement work-around
+ introduced in Ant 1.7.0 has been removed.
+ Bugzilla Report 40511.
+
+ * In the <touch> task when a <mapper> is used, the millis and
+ datetime attributes now override the time of the source resource if
+ provisioned.
+ Bugzilla Report 43235.
+
+ * Remove fall-back mechanism for references that are not resolved
+ during normal runtime execution.
+
+ * FileUtils.createTempFile now actually creates the file.
+ The TempFile task still does not create the file by default, can be
+ instructed to do so however using a new parameter.
+ Bugzilla Report 33969.
-* A lock in Project ensured that a BuildListener's messageLogged
- method was only ever executed by a single thread at a time, while
- all other methods could be invoked by multiple threads
- simultaniously (while within <parallel>, for example). This lock is
- no longer in place, messageLogged should be made thread-safe now.
+ * A lock in Project ensured that a BuildListener's messageLogged
+ method was only ever executed by a single thread at a time, while
+ all other methods could be invoked by multiple threads
+ simultaniously (while within <parallel>, for example). This lock
+ is no longer in place, messageLogged should be made thread-safe
+ now.
* <sql>'s onError="stop" no longer fails the build if an error
occurs, this is the main difference between stop and error and
@@ -62,7 +67,7 @@
* <unzip> will now fail when trying to extract certain broken
archives that would have been silently ignored in earlier version.
- Bugzilla report 35000.
+ Bugzilla Report 35000.
* Ant's <zip> family of tasks tries to preserve the existing Unix
permissions when updating archives or copying entries from one
@@ -103,7 +108,7 @@
The task will now try to delete them in both cases.
Bugzilla Report 41285.
- * if the dir attribute of a <fileset> point to a symbolic link and
+ * if the dir attribute of a <fileset> points to a symbolic link and
followsymlinks is set to false, the fileset will no longer be
scanned and always seem empty.
Bugzilla Report 45741.
@@ -148,53 +153,64 @@
Fixed bugs:
-----------
-* The default logger was failing to print complete stack traces for exceptions
- other than BuildException when inside <ant> or <antcall>, thus omitting often
- important diagnostic information. Bugzilla 43398 (continued).
+ * The default logger was failing to print complete stack traces for
+ exceptions other than BuildException when inside <ant> or
+ <antcall>, thus omitting often important diagnostic
+ information.
+ Bugzilla 43398 (continued).
- * Better handling of package-info.class. Bugzilla Report 43114.
+ * Better handling of package-info.class.
+ Bugzilla Report 43114.
* RPM task needed an inserted space between the define and the value.
- bugzilla Report 46659.
+ Bugzilla Report 46659.
- * Got rid of deadlock between in in, out and err in the Redirector.
+ * Got rid of deadlock between in, out and err in the Redirector.
Bugzilla Report 44544.
- * Caused by AssertionError no longer filtered. Bugzilla report 45631.
+ * Caused by AssertionError no longer filtered.
+ Bugzilla Report 45631.
- * <zip> would sometimes recreate JARs unnecessarily. Bugzilla report 45902.
+ * <zip> would sometimes recreate JARs unnecessarily.
+ Bugzilla Report 45902.
- * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite existing symlinks that pointed to
nonexistent files
- Bugzilla report 38199.
+ * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite existing symlinks that pointed to
+ nonexistent files
+ Bugzilla Report 38199.
* <symlink> task couldn't overwrite files that were in the way of the symlink.
- Bugzilla report 43426.
+ Bugzilla Report 43426.
- * <symlink> task failonerror="false" does not stop build from failing when
'ln'
- command returns non-zero. Bugzilla report 43624
-
- * <touch> task couldn't differentiate between "no resources specified" and
"no resources
- matched." Bugzilla report 43799.
-
- * ManifestClassPath throws when a relative path would traverse the file
system root. Bugzilla
- report 44499.
-
- * <globmapper> had an indexoutofbounds when the prefix and postfix
overlapped. Bugzilla report
- 44731.
+ * <symlink> task failonerror="false" does not stop build from failing
+ when 'ln' command returns non-zero.
+ Bugzilla Report 43624
+
+ * <touch> task couldn't differentiate between "no resources
+ specified" and "no resources matched."
+ Bugzilla Report 43799.
+
+ * ManifestClassPath failed when a relative path would traverse the
+ file system root.
+ Bugzilla Report 44499.
+
+ * <globmapper> had an indexoutofbounds when the prefix and postfix
+ overlapped.
+ Bugzilla Report 44731.
* <typedef> and <taskdef> failed to accept file names with #
characters in them.
- Bugzilla report 45190
+ Bugzilla Report 45190
* A deadlock could occur if a BuildListener tried to access an Ant property
within messageLogged while a different thread also accessed one.
- Bugzilla report 45194
+ Bugzilla Report 45194
* Handle null result of system getProperty() in CommandlineJava.
- Similar to Bugzilla report 42334.
+ Similar to Bugzilla Report 42334.
* Length task did not process nonexistent Resources even though these might
- conceivably still carry file length information. Bugzilla report 45271.
+ conceivably still carry file length information.
+ Bugzilla Report 45271.
* <javac>'s includeJavaRuntime="false" should work for gcj now. Note
that you may need to set includeAntRuntime to false in order to
@@ -204,7 +220,7 @@
* <sql> would fail if the executed statment didn't return a result
set with some JDBC driver that dissalow Statement.getResultSet to
be called in such a situation.
- Bugzilla report 36265
+ Bugzilla Report 36265
* if the executed statement in <sql> returned a result set and an
update count, the count would be lost.
@@ -226,7 +242,7 @@
* The IPlanetDeploymentTool didn't use the configured DTD locations.
Bugzilla Report 31876.
- * The ant shell script printed a warning unser Cygwin if JAVA_HOME
+ * The ant shell script printed a warning under Cygwin if JAVA_HOME
was not set.
Bugzilla Report 45245.
@@ -355,7 +371,8 @@
exclude patterns.
* <sort> resource collection kept only one of entries deemed equal by
- the chosen Comparator. Bugzilla report 46527.
+ the chosen Comparator.
+ Bugzilla Report 46527.
* the ZipFile class used by <unzip> and others could leave the
archive open (making it undeletable on Windows as long as the java
@@ -453,21 +470,22 @@
Other changes:
--------------
+
* The get task now also follows redirects from http to https
- Bugzilla report 47433
+ Bugzilla Report 47433
* A HostInfo task was added performing information on hosts, including info
on
the host ant is running on.
- Bugzilla reports 45861 and 31164.
+ Bugzilla Reports 45861 and 31164.
* There is now a FileProvider interface for resources that act as a source
of filenames. This should be used by tasks that require resources
to provide filenames, rather than require that all resources
are instances or subclasses of FileResource.
- Bugzilla report 43348
+ Bugzilla Report 43348
* Fixcrlf now gives better error messages on bad directory attributes.
- Bugzilla report 43936
+ Bugzilla Report 43936
* a new property ant.project.default-target holds the value of the
current <project>'s default attribute.
@@ -506,32 +524,33 @@
a build if a warning occurs.
Bugzilla Report 41836.
- * Ant now supports scoped properties (see Local task). Bugzilla report 23942.
+ * Ant now supports scoped properties (see Local task).
+ Bugzilla Report 23942.
* <sql>'s CSV output can be controlled via the new attributes
csvColumnSeparator and csvQuoteCharacter.
- Bugzilla report 35627.
+ Bugzilla Report 35627.
* <ftp>'s logging has been improved.
- Bugzilla reports 30932, 31743.
+ Bugzilla Reports 30932, 31743.
* It is now possible to disable <ftp>'s remote verification.
- Bugzilla report 35471.
+ Bugzilla Report 35471.
* <sshexec> now supports input in a way similar to <exec>
- Bugzilla report 39197.
+ Bugzilla Report 39197.
* <scp> can now preserve the file modification time when downloading
files.
- Bugzilla Issue 33939.
+ Bugzilla Report 33939.
* the new task sshsession can run multiple tasks in the presence of
an SSH session providing (local and remote) tunnels.
- Bugzilla Issue 43083.
+ Bugzilla Report 43083.
* ZipOutputStream has been sped up for certain usage scenarios that
are not used by Ant's family of zip tasks.
- Bugzilla report 45396.
+ Bugzilla Report 45396.
* <echo> supports an "output" Resource attribute as an alternative to "file".
@@ -539,7 +558,7 @@
* <scp> no longer requires a passphrase when using key based
authentication.
- Bugzilla report 33718.
+ Bugzilla Report 33718.
* a new failOnEmptyArchive attribute on <unzip> and <untar> can now
make the task fail the build if it tries to extract an empty
@@ -571,7 +590,7 @@
Bugzilla Report 45284
* Enhanced performance of Project.fireMessageLoggedEvent and DirectoryScanner
- Bugzilla Report 45651 & 45665
+ Bugzilla Reports 45651 and 45665
* The package list location for offline links can now be specified as
an URL.
@@ -588,7 +607,8 @@
* The Jar task now supports the addition of a jar index file in update mode.
Previously the absence of the index was not enough to trigger the rebuild;
- some other update was necessary. Bugzilla report 45098.
+ some other update was necessary.
+ Bugzilla report 45098.
* <ant> has a new attribute "useNativeBasedir" that makes the child
build use the same basedir it would have used if invoked from the
@@ -603,7 +623,7 @@
ProjectHelper if the implementation overrides the new
canParseAntlibDescriptor and parseAntlibDescriptor methods. If the
configured helper doesn't override the methods, a new instance of
- ProjectHelper2 will be used just like in ant 1.7.1.
+ ProjectHelper2 will be used just like in Ant 1.7.1.
Bugzilla Report 42208.
* It is now possible to explicitly set the executable used by
@@ -678,7 +698,7 @@
Bugzilla Report 46063.
* <import> has new attributes "as" and "prefixSeparator" that can be
- used to control the prefix prepended to the imported target's
+ used to control the prefix prepended to the imported targets'
names.
* a new task <include> provides an alternative to <import> that
@@ -692,7 +712,7 @@
* the os and osfamily attributes of <chown>, <chgrp>, <chmod> and
<attrib> can now be used to run the commands on operating systems
other than their "native" environment, i.e. non-Unix or non-Windows
- operating systems repsectively.
+ operating systems respectively.
Bugzilla Report 7624.
* a new resource collection <mappedresources> generalizes the prefix
@@ -733,7 +753,7 @@
Bugzilla Report 36653.
* a new resource collection <archives> can be used to specify
- collections of ZIP and TAR archives as source and extracts them on
+ collections of ZIP and TAR archives as sources. It extracts them on
the fly. This is a generalization of the <zipgroupfileset> found
as nested element of <zip> and friends.
Bugzilla Report 46257.
@@ -768,7 +788,7 @@
build fail if the task didn't do anything.
Bugzilla Report 21064.
- * <sync>'s <preserveInTarget> has a new attribute that conrols
+ * <sync>'s <preserveInTarget> has a new attribute that controls
whether empty directories should be kept.
Bugzilla Report 43159.
@@ -800,8 +820,8 @@
file name and comment encoding. Please see the zip tasks'
documentation for details.
- * <input ...><handler type="secure" /></input> now uses previously
undocumented
- SecureInputHandler shipped with Ant 1.7.1.
+ * <input ...><handler type="secure" /></input> now uses previously
+ undocumented SecureInputHandler shipped with Ant 1.7.1.
* Command line arguments for <exec> and similar tasks can now have
optional prefix and suffix attributes.
@@ -812,7 +832,7 @@
Bugzilla Report 45625
* <jar> has a new attribute to enable indexing of META-INF
- directories which is desabled for backwards compatibility reasons.
+ directories which is disabled for backwards compatibility reasons.
Bugzilla Report 47457
* <apt>'s executable attribute can be used to specify a different
@@ -826,7 +846,7 @@
* <javac>, <rmic>, <javah> and <native2ascii> now provide a nested
element to specify a classpath that will be used when loading the
task's (compiler) adapter class.
- Bugzilla Issue 11143.
+ Bugzilla Report 11143.
* A new subclass org.apache.tools.ant.loader.AntClassLoader5 of
AntClassLoader has been added which overrides getResources
@@ -834,7 +854,7 @@
this method now behaves as expected.
The new subclass will be used by Ant internally if it is available
and Ant is running on Java5 or more recent.
- Bugzilla Issue 46752.
+ Bugzilla Report 46752.
* a new attributes can chose a different request method than GET for
the http condition.
