On 2010-08-05, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Even though Ant still lives in Java 1.4 land, there wouldn't be any >> problem with an Antlib that required Java 5 - Maven 2.2 requires Java5 >> by now. I don't really think we are sticking with Java 1.4 for any real >> reason other than "nobody has started the migration". > RAT is an important tool for Ant based builds. Sure, but if the Antlib requires Java5 that doesn't mean you have to do the rest of the build with it. > As Maven now depends on Java 1.5, I'd prefer to wait for Ant. Ant 1.8.0 released early this year was the first release to require Java 1.4 - I don't expect Ant to move to Java5 before mid-2011. Stefan
