Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT][NET] jakarta-commons/net 1.2 Released

[Steve Cohen <sc...@javactivity.org>]

With the release of jakarta-commons/net 1.2, I would like to propose that Ant 
update its use of commons/net to use this new version in time for the next 
version which I see is being discussed.  

Doing so should greatly reduce the incidence of complaints about the FTP task 
when run against non-unix servers.  1.2 automatically detects the server 
type, recognizing, in addition to unix, which was supported in all previous 
versions, NT, OS2, VMS and OS400 servers.

This functionality will work out of the box if this version of commons-net is 
used.

I will also be preparing a patch that would enable parsers that cannot be 
autodetected, including user-developed FTP list parsers, to be plugged into 
the ant task.

There is also some verbiage under the FTP task that should be changed to 
reflect this.

Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT][NET] jakarta-commons/net 1.2 Released

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Sat, 1 May 2004, Steve Cohen <sc...@javactivity.org> wrote:

> This functionality will work out of the box if this version of
> commons-net is used.

Maybe you should also forward the announcement to user@ant if just
switching to commons-net 1.2 will solve a bunch of common problems
people face.

> I will also be preparing a patch that would enable parsers that
> cannot be autodetected, including user-developed FTP list parsers,
> to be plugged into the ant task.

Cool.  +1 to get this into 1.6.2.

> There is also some verbiage under the FTP task that should be
> changed to reflect this.

Patches are welcome.  I wouldn't know exactly which text you'd want to
change and I certainly wouldn't know what to change it to.

Stefan

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