On Wed, 2 May 2001, Colin Sampaleanu wrote: > I spent an hour or so scratching my head trying to figure out why Struts > builds ok with Ant 1.3, but with 1.4 fails to copy over struts.jar into the > distributables. It is because the build scripts use the "available" task to > check for the existence of directories, and whereas Ant 1.3 had one > attribute, "file", that worked for both files and dirs, Ant 1.4 expects you > to use "file" and "dir" respectively. > > The patches below simply make a note of the incompatibility... > I'm going to go ahead and apply these, but I've heard that the Ant crowd is going to fix this by re-enabling backwards compatibility on the available task. Thanks to GUMP, we found out that they broke a *lot* of build scripts when they made that change :-). Personally, I'm going to stick with released versions of Ant -- I do enough bleeding edge stuff already. Craig
