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-- Jürgen Knuplesch www.icongmbh.de icon Systemhaus GmbH Tel. +49 711 806098-275 Sophienstraße 40 D-70178 Stuttgart Fax. +49 711 806098-299 Geschäftsführer: Uwe Seltmann HRB Stuttgart 17655 USt-IdNr.: DE 811944121 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Antoine Levy Lambert [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 23:29 An: Ant Users List Betreff: [ANN] Release of Ant 1.8.0 Hi, on behalf of the Ant development team, I have the pleasure to announce the release of Ant 1.8.0. Some of the features included in the new release are : * Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only defined inside a target, sequential block or similar environment. * <import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource - this includes <javaresource>. * Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with symbolic link cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for example) and improve scanning performance. For big directory trees the improvement is dramatic. * The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten (breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful. * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be extended with custom targets more easily * At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it" if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named "true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property expansion. * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later * new task include provides an alternative to <import> that should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and in WHATSNEW Regards, Antoine Levy-Lambert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
