On Jan 17, 2008 12:37 AM, James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16/01/2008, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Toomey, Kevin H (ATS, IT) wrote:
> > > It looks like support for JSR199 (java compiler API) would give me what 
> > > I'm looking for, but I couldn't tell for sure if/when that support would 
> > > be available with Ant.
> >
> >
> > The open source story with ant is: if you need a feature, you get to
> > implement it. If you can add a new compiler adapter in a way that it
> > works, and such that ant still builds on pre Java-6 systems, then it
> > will go into Ant 1.8. Otherwise, you have to wait until someone else has
> > the need and the time.
> >
> > -steve
>
> What is the base target version for ant development these days? Java 5?
>
It is java5, however, the ant jars need to be able to work gracefully in
a java1.3 and java1.4 env (i.e. support what can be supported).
> James
>
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