Old versions can be found here: http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/
OM is built successfully using 1.8.3 and 1.8.4, haven't tested 1.9.0 On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:21 PM, George Kirkham <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe this has been reported, but what version of Ant can we compile with? > > I am unable to download "apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz" and could only find > "apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz". > > Will it be safe to use 1.9.0 ? Or is there somewhere to download 1.8.4 ? > > > > > ====================================================================================== > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# wget > http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz > --2013-04-05 20:33:20-- > http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz > Resolving mirror.catn.com... 87.124.126.49 > Connecting to mirror.catn.com|87.124.126.49|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > 2013-04-05 20:33:22 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# > > > ======================================================================================= > > Changes from Ant 1.8.4 TO Ant 1.9.0 =================================== > Changes that could break older environments: > ------------------------------------------- * Ant now requires at least > Java 1.5 to compile and to run * FixCRLF used to treat the EOL value ASIS > to convert to the system property line.separator. Specified was that ASIS > would leave the EOL characters alone, the task now really leaves the EOL > characters alone. This also implies that EOL ASIS will not insert a newline > even if fixlast is set to true. Bugzilla report 53036 * The CommandLauncher > hierarchy that used to be a set of inner classes of Execute has been > extracted to the org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.launcher package. * Any > FileResource whose represented File has a parent also has a basedir. * > Removing the Perforce Ant tasks replaced by tasks supplied by Perforce Inc. > * Setting the default encoding of StringResource to UTF-8 instead of null * > Upgrade JUnit 4 to JUnit 4.11 > > > ======================================================================================================== > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# wget > http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz > --2013-04-05 20:43:49-- > http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz > Resolving mirror.catn.com... 87.124.126.49 > Connecting to mirror.catn.com|87.124.126.49|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 5494136 (5.2M) [application/x-gzip] > Saving to: `apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz' > > 100%[=================================================================================>] > 5,494,136 562K/s in 13s > > 2013-04-05 20:44:03 (398 KB/s) - `apache-ant-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz' saved > [5494136/5494136] > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# > > > > ============================================================================================================ > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# wget > http://apache.heikorichter.name/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz > --2013-04-05 20:58:29-- > http://apache.heikorichter.name/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz > Resolving apache.heikorichter.name... 78.46.103.8, > 2a01:4f8:120:9324:78:46:103:8 > Connecting to apache.heikorichter.name|78.46.103.8|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > 2013-04-05 20:58:30 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > root@om-21:/usr/adm# > > > =================================================================================================================== > > Thanks, > > George Kirkham > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
