RE: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Dominique Devienne
; -Original Message- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:37 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts > > Dominique Devienne wrote: > > Thanks for the quick answer Conor and Stefan. Glad to head this should

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Steve Loughran
Dominique Devienne wrote: Thanks for the quick answer Conor and Stefan. Glad to head this should be working with Ant CVS. We're using Ant 1.5.3 of course, and are unlikely to switch over to Ant CVS though. I will nonetheless soon make sure Ant CVS is backward compatible with all our builds and cust

RE: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Dominique Devienne
g [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, when an existing (custom) task/type is modified, Ant fa

RE: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Dominique Devienne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:40 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts > > Ok: >1) polymorphism >2) loading of antlib.xml files/resource >3) namespace >4) roles > > Peter > > On Wed, 2003-06

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when an existing (custom) task/type is modified, Ant fails > at parse time saying this task or type doesn't support this > attribute or nested element (which is of course available in the > latest version of buildtools),

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:44 am, Dominique Devienne wrote: > Hi Conor and fellow Anters, > Hi Dominique, Have you been trying Ant 1.6 in this scenario already? I would expect it to work for you. It should be all UnknownElements now with resolution just prior to execution so your buildtools task sh

RE: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread Dominique Devienne
or MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts > I will be working on the lcp.bat replacement next. This will address the > command line too long, environment space issues, etc. Are you going to work in some sort scripting language like Perl or Python, or more

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-26 Thread peter reilly
Ok: 1) polymorphism 2) loading of antlib.xml files/resource 3) namespace 4) roles Peter On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:25, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 25 Jun 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The roadmap could be: > >1) roles (allowing the typedef definition to be opti

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-25 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do we want to approach bringing in try-catch? I'm +1 on the idea > but unsure of the ant-contrib situation in terms of granting that > code to Apache. Thoughts? Legally we'd need a software grant form signed by all people that h

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-25 Thread Conor MacNeill
Thanks for all the feedback. Some follow up thoughts: I will be working on the lcp.bat replacement next. This will address the command line too long, environment space issues, etc. I'm reluctant to go through a 1.5.4 release. It is possible but it doesn't give us much for the amount of effort i

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-25 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 25 Jun 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The roadmap could be: >1) roles (allowing the typedef definition to be optionally > restricted - this is required to allow current conditions > /filters etcs to be defined) (+ extendtype) >2) polymorphism (using ant-type

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-25 Thread peter reilly
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:43, Conor MacNeill wrote: > I'd like to kick off a discussion on what needs to be done to get Ant 1.6 to > a > release. I'm just going to ramble through some random thoughts I have been > having in no particular order just to get discussion started. > > I don't have a

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Hmm, if this is a pressing bug, we may as well think about 1.5.4 instead. I'd even be willing to wade through all those "small" bugfixes and merge them over to the 1.5 branch ... Not that I was keen on doing another 1.5 release, but if

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 08:43 AM, Conor MacNeill wrote: I'd like to kick off a discussion on what needs to be done to get Ant 1.6 to a release. I'm just going to ramble through some random thoughts I have been having in no particular order just to get discussion started. +1 on Conor to get

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Nick Chalko
Steve Loughran wrote: 2. Import task I think this needs more testing and work. I currently have a disabled testcase that shows one problem. I think we have had some discussions on the meaning of basedirs for imported stuff without any clear resolution. I am using this in a project as of last we

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Steve Loughran wrote: Personally I think machine-generated is the right approach, but we need to transfer the rules about optional attributes into the xdocs, then sit down and migrate all the current docs into xdocs form. Also, is xdocs currently runnin

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
"Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd like to kick off a discussion on what needs to be done to get Ant 1.6 to a > release. I'm just going to ramble through some random thoughts I have been > having in no particular order just to get discussion st

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Conor MacNeill wrote: I'd like to kick off a discussion on what needs to be done to get Ant 1.6 to a release. I'm just going to ramble through some random thoughts I have been having in no particular order just to get discussion started. I don't have any fixed timeframe in mind, or anything so

Re: Ant 1.6 todo thoughts

2003-06-24 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have any fixed timeframe in mind, or anything so concrete at > this stage but I think we need to start looking at it. Generally fine with me. > After all, I can only stand seeing the javah bug reported so many > times. Funn