Re: Please test Ant 1.10.16 release candidate

Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:36:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-02-09, Richard A. Mead wrote:

> I think I had 1.10.14 working previously...=C2=A0 and I started out with =
no
> quotes.=C2=A0 =C2=A0Note that java is working for me while JAVA_HOME has =
quotes.

> Nevertheless, I remove the quotes and voila!=C2=A0 It is working now...

I looked around a bit and it seems the common advice is to put quotes
outside the definition

set "ANT_HOME=3DPath with Spaces"

To me it doesn't really look as if ant.bat hasn't changed significantly
https://github.com/apache/ant/commits/master/src/script/ant.bat

> Well, ant.bat is working.=C2=A0 ant.cmd and antenv still return this erro=
r:

The .cmd files are OS/2 files (yes, Ant is that old :-) and you
shouldn't need either of them.

Stefan