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Ant 1.6.2 release?
Hi,
About a month ago there was some discussion of a 1.6.2 release.
Has this been shelved?
If not is there a timeframe?
I was hoping to get a release with the junit fork patch that was applied
recently.
I could create a patched version myself but I'm reluctant to distribute
a non-official
version to my team (for all the usual reasons). If there is a release
expected
soon I can hold off and wait for it. Otherwise I'll look into what I
can do myself.
thanks
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Ben Sommerville
Bullet Proof Systems
ben@bulletproof.com.au
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com>.
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
>I see. Looking into DirectoryScanner it seems not that easy to fix
>since the scanner will either recurse into x or exclude x based on the
>followSymlink setting so anything we'd want to do would not only
>affect Delete but probably any other task using DirectoryScanner as
>well.
>
>
I was thinking more in terms of adding an attribute to the delete task
<delete treatsymlinksasfiles="yes" dir="build"/>
But, it does need to interact with the fileset "symfollowsymlinks"
attribute in some way to
make things consistent, or perhaps a "treatsymlinksasfiles" attribute to
filesets, which
<delete> sets if "treatsymlinkasfiles" is set.
Peter
>Stefan
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004, Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> wrote:
> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 27 May 2004, Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> wrote:
>>> 4) search paths for the import task
>>
>>Could you please expand on that?
>>
> This is something that could be done post 1.6.2.
> The idea is that <import file="x.xml"/> would
> be a bit like #include from cpp where there is an INCLUDEPATH
> that specifies where to look for "x.xml".
OK, I'd rather defer that after 1.6.2.
>>> 5) add delete on exit feature to the <delete> task - needed to
>>> antlib devl on windows
>>
>>What does this do?
>>
> One would need to do something like:
> <delete onfail="deleteonexit">
> <fileset dir="${install.dir}" includes="antextra-*.jar"/>
> </delete>
>
> There has been some discussion in ant-dev on this subject:
OK, I see. Doesn't look to difficult to implement, but harder to
provide decent feedback to the user: "Could not delete file X, will
try to delete it again later"?
You can add it to the list as far as I'm concerned.
>>> 6) add a do not follow symbolic links option to <delete> task
>>
>>When is this needed?
>
> One could have a build directory:
> build
> y
> x -> something outside the build directory that should not be deleted
>
> One cannot use the delete task to delete the build directory
> completely.
I see. Looking into DirectoryScanner it seems not that easy to fix
since the scanner will either recurse into x or exclude x based on the
followSymlink setting so anything we'd want to do would not only
affect Delete but probably any other task using DirectoryScanner as
well.
Stefan
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com>.
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>On Thu, 27 May 2004, Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>1) implicit element for macrodef
>> move from head to 1.6 branch
>>
>>2) DynamicElementNS
>> move from head to 1.6 branch
>>
>>
>
>Those are done, correct?
>
>
>
Just a few minutes ago :-)
>>3) Allow nested elements discovered by refection on to be
>> in the ant default namespace uri as well as the task's/types
>> namespace uri (the current rules are difficult to follow and
>> make build scripts look like line noise :-( aka xml ns hell)
>>
>>
>
>Could you please (re-)start a dedicated thread for this so we have all
>the details can resolve this once and for all time (well, a months or
>two would be fine 8-)
>
>
Ok,
I will get my thoughts together and compose an e-mail with references to
the previous discussions.
>
>
>>Other things - maybe after 1.6.2
>>
>> 1) the antlibresolve task
>>
>>
>
>after 1.6.2
>
>
Ok.
>
>
>> 2) concat support for binary files
>>
>>
>
>Done, correct?
>
>
Yes.
>
>
>> 3) fix some classloading issues:
>> a) set the parent classloader in createClassloader() - most
>> likely a good thing and
>>
>>
>
>I agree, but we may want to reopen this as a discussion in a separate
>thread for more visibility.
>
>
Correct.
>
>
>> 4) search paths for the import task
>>
>>
>
>Could you please expand on that?
>
>
This is something that could be done post 1.6.2.
The idea is that <import file="x.xml"/> would
be a bit like #include from cpp where there is an INCLUDEPATH
that specifies where to look for "x.xml".
There has been a discussion on these issues,
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=108187987209772&w=2
>
>
>> 5) add delete on exit feature to the <delete> task - needed to
>> antlib devl on windows
>>
>>
>
>What does this do?
>
>
I was experimenting with an internal antlib.
And needed to remove the jar file from .ant/lib directory
so that the build was not affected by the classes in
the antlib jar file.
<target name="remove-install">
<mkdir dir="${install.dir}"/>
<delete>
<fileset dir="${install.dir}" includes="antextra-*.jar"/>
</delete>
</target>
Doing this is not possible on windows as the jar file is "open".
One would need to do something like:
<delete onfail="deleteonexit">
<fileset dir="${install.dir}" includes="antextra-*.jar"/>
</delete>
There has been some discussion in ant-dev on this subject:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107663433900002&r=1&w=2
>> 6) add a do not follow symbolic links option to <delete> task
>>
>>
>
>When is this needed? Why is the symlink support in <fileset> not
>sufficient?
>
>
I see that this is an old issue:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1550
I do not think that this is sufficient.
see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=107877912817024&w=2
The example is :
<>"
<delete includeEmptyDirs="yes">
<fileset dir="workdir" followsymlinks="no" defaultexcludes="no"/>
</delete>
which doesn't follow symlinks but also doesn't delete the symlinks
themselves."
One could have a build directory:
build
y
x -> something outside the build directory that should not be deleted
One cannot use the delete task to delete the build directory completely.
Peter
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> wrote:
> 1) implicit element for macrodef
> move from head to 1.6 branch
>
> 2) DynamicElementNS
> move from head to 1.6 branch
Those are done, correct?
> 3) Allow nested elements discovered by refection on to be
> in the ant default namespace uri as well as the task's/types
> namespace uri (the current rules are difficult to follow and
> make build scripts look like line noise :-( aka xml ns hell)
Could you please (re-)start a dedicated thread for this so we have all
the details can resolve this once and for all time (well, a months or
two would be fine 8-)
> Other things - maybe after 1.6.2
>
> 1) the antlibresolve task
after 1.6.2
> 2) concat support for binary files
Done, correct?
> 3) fix some classloading issues:
> a) set the parent classloader in createClassloader() - most
> likely a good thing and
I agree, but we may want to reopen this as a discussion in a separate
thread for more visibility.
> 4) search paths for the import task
Could you please expand on that?
> 5) add delete on exit feature to the <delete> task - needed to
> antlib devl on windows
What does this do?
> 6) add a do not follow symbolic links option to <delete> task
When is this needed? Why is the symlink support in <fileset> not
sufficient?
Stefan
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com>.
I would like to do:
1) implicit element for macrodef
move from head to 1.6 branch
2) DynamicElementNS
move from head to 1.6 branch
3) Allow nested elements discovered by refection on to be
in the ant default namespace uri as well as the task's/types
namespace uri
(the current rules are difficult to follow and make build scripts
look like line noise :-( aka xml ns hell)
<ac:for param="file">
<ac:path>
<ac:fileset dir="${test.dir}/mains" includes="*.c,*.cpp"/>
<ac:pathelement path="${test.dir}/probeoffline/probeoffline.cpp"/>
<ac:pathelement path="src/shell/probesh.cpp"/>
<ac:pathelement path="test/shell/TestProbesh.cpp"/>
<ac:pathelement path="test/probed/TestProbed.cpp"/>
<ac:pathelement path="test/pcapanon/pcapanon.cpp"/>
</ac:path>
<ac:sequential>
<compile-exec-file file="@{file}"/>
</ac:sequential>
</ac:for>
4) Fix the Xml validation with scheam
currently the unit test does not enable validation
see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=107657690216179&w=2
5) Fix or at least document support for tomcat 5.0 jsp
Other things - maybe after 1.6.2
1) the antlibresolve task
2) concat support for binary files
3) fix some classloading issues:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28782
this does two things, a) set the parent classloader in
createClassloader()
- most likely a good thing and b) search parent classloaders for
resources
- most likely this will cause BC problems.
4) search paths for the import task
5) add delete on exit feature to the <delete> task - needed to antlib devl
on windows
6) add a do not follow symbolic links option to <delete> task
Peter
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>On Thu, 27 May 2004, Ben Sommerville <be...@bulletproof.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>>About a month ago there was some discussion of a 1.6.2 release.
>>Has this been shelved?
>>If not is there a timeframe?
>>
>>
>
>Unfortunately it looks to have slipped again, thanks for pushing.
>
>Dear committers, do you think we can get a list of "must-get-fixed"
>reports by some fixed date - say end of next week? After that we
>could freeze features and start rolling a first beta as soon as the
>list is "done".
>
>Stefan
>
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Dear committers, do you think we can get a list of "must-get-fixed"
> reports by some fixed date - say end of next week?
Looks as if some of us can 8-) I volunteer to compile the list and
kick of next steps after that.
Stefan
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.
--- Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
> <fail> nested <condition> instead of if/unless
[SNIP]
s/instead of/as an alternative to/
-Matt
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.
--- Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
[SNIP]
> Dear committers, do you think we can get a list of
> "must-get-fixed"
> reports by some fixed date - say end of next week?
[SNIP]
I'll go through bugzilla and submit my must-fix bugs
to the list next week.
Stuff I have not, but plan to, put into 1.6.2 from
HEAD (last chance for objections):
nested and container <mapper>s
<redirector>s
<loadproperties> from resource
<fail> nested <condition> instead of if/unless
my cygwin changes for ant script
Target.set/getLocation()
<apply> differentiates between empty & up-to-date
-Matt
P.S. Much thanks to Conor and company for updating
Fisheye every so often! It is very helpful to me to
be able to go back and see exactly what I've done...
I'm like "wow, did I fix that?"
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Re: Ant 1.6.2 release?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Ben Sommerville <be...@bulletproof.com.au> wrote:
> About a month ago there was some discussion of a 1.6.2 release.
> Has this been shelved?
> If not is there a timeframe?
Unfortunately it looks to have slipped again, thanks for pushing.
Dear committers, do you think we can get a list of "must-get-fixed"
reports by some fixed date - say end of next week? After that we
could freeze features and start rolling a first beta as soon as the
list is "done".
Stefan
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