Maybe if one day maven came with its own installer, so that rather than requiring Ant be installed on the machine before maven is used that users could just run maven and it would use its own Ant installation. Then users could type...
maven maven:compile Then maven could use whatever version of Ant it liked underneath; using whatever latest and greatest version & features etc. Though until that happens I don't think we should force users to upgrade to the latest and greatest beta release of Ant; though if we can optionally make use of new stuff in 1.5beta that'd be cool.. James ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Turbine Maven Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Will Maven's final release be Ant 1.4.1 compatible? > > Cool. Thanks for the opinions. Believe it or not, this sort of discussion > will definitely sway me. I can see your point wrt commons and Ant. The > difference for us is that we don't just download ant (at the moment), > whereas the dependencies we do. > > I doubt anyone would want a maven release to wait on releasing other > projects. > > A vote anyone? > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > Work: http://www.multitask.com.au > Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers > > > > "Peter Lynch" > <peterlynch@minds To: "Turbine Maven Developers List" > pring.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > 05/27/02 01:08 PM Subject: Re: Will Maven's final release be Ant 1.4.1 compatible? > Please respond to > "Turbine Maven > Developers List" > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Turbine Maven Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 4:35 AM > Subject: Re: Will Maven's final release be Ant 1.4.1 compatible? > > > > > > I'm happy to support Ant 1.5 when it's released. That's not far away, but > > > To be clear, it would be OK with me if Maven's official release does not > support > < Ant 1.5 for all plugins. > > > most builds these days are done with 1.4.1, and we need to support the > most > > common build environment. > > > > Respectfully disagree. I hear talk about supporting only released code but > don't > buy it. Maven is still in Beta. Maven has dependencies on commons-lang 0.1, > comons-io 0.1, commons-util 0.1, and dvsl 0.43. Will people that use Maven > in > Beta come to terms with that? > > Having as a dependency a stable Ant 1.5 Beta is not different than the > above > dependencies to me while Maven is in Beta. Besides, Ant 1.5 features that > are > needed in Maven may begin to clutter Maven's source eventually. > > Then again, does Maven wait until all the above have official releases > before > it's own 1.0 release? That may not be realistic either. Interesting. I > guess > we'll see. > > > > Which issues, other than javadoc do we have with jdk 1.4? I'm running it > at > > the moment, and that's my only hassle. > > > > Re: the J2EE Plug-in/Ant 1.5 dependencies, I 'fixed' those on the > weekend, > > let me know if it's broken. > > > > I'm happy that Ant 1.5 support will be pretty easily done, as my > experience > > with it is proving fairly seamless. > > Proving good for me too. > > -Peter > > <snip> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
