Re: Status

Raja Nagendra Kumar <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:51:40 +0530
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Hi,

As ant-contrib has become very useful to many, why this code and tasks 
not taken as part of ant it self, so that, once save lot of time and IT 
energy wastage.

Regards,
Nagendra
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On 7/8/2011 9:31 AM, Matthew Inger wrote:
> A few people have asked the status of the ant-contrib project.
>
> I have not had much time to work on it recently.  Also,  I got kind of 
> frustrated by the constant API changes
> in Ant itself which kept breaking various tasks.  As a result, I had 
> to maintain several different versions of the
> code just to support different Ant versions.
>
> On top of that, we have 1 task that relies on Ivy as well, and that 
> underwent version changes.
>
> Then add into the mix, supporting Java 1.5 and Java 1.6.
>
> It all because too many variables.
>
> I'm willing to get everything working on Ant 1.8.2 (the most recent 
> version), and put out a final
> release.  However, it will require specific versions of Ant, JDK and 
> Ivy.  As those other products
> get updated, newer Ant-Contrib would support only the latest versions 
> of those.  That's not to say
> ant-contrib would not be backward compatible, but that depends on the 
> API changes of it's dependent
> products.
>
> Thoughts?
> ----
> [email protected]
> "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it
> dominate your destiny. Consume you it will " - Yoda
>
>
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> All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable.
> Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security
> threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
> sense of it. IT sense. And common sense.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2
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    As ant-contrib has become very useful to many, why this code and
    tasks not taken as part of ant it self, so that, once save lot of
    time and IT energy wastage.<br>
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    Regards,<br>
    Nagendra<br>
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        <div>A few people have asked the status of the ant-contrib
          project.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I have not had much time to work on it recently. &nbsp;Also, &nbsp;I
          got kind of frustrated by the constant API changes</div>
        <div>in Ant itself which kept breaking various tasks. &nbsp;As a
          result, I had to maintain several different versions of the</div>
        <div>code just to support different Ant versions.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>On top of that, we have 1 task that relies on Ivy as well,
          and that underwent version changes.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Then add into the mix, supporting Java 1.5 and Java 1.6.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>It all because too many variables.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I'm willing to get everything working on Ant 1.8.2 (the
          most recent version), and put out a final</div>
        <div>release. &nbsp;However, it will require specific versions of
          Ant, JDK and Ivy. &nbsp;As those other products</div>
        <div>get updated, newer Ant-Contrib would support only the
          latest versions of those. &nbsp;That's not to say</div>
        <div>ant-contrib would not be backward compatible, but that
          depends on the API changes of it's dependent</div>
        <div>products.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Thoughts?</div>
        <div>&nbsp;</div>
        <div>----<br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
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          dominate your destiny. Consume you it will " - Yoda</div>
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