How does this list work

[Maurice le Rutte <mp...@oce.nl>]

I've just subscribed to this list and I'm wondering how this list works.

For instances, I've modified the javac task to support the -source
and -target options of Jdk1.4 (ok, nothing spectacular). How do I find out
if other people have already done that for ant 1.4 and if not, how do I
submit these changes for approval?

I can't use CVS because the firewall blocks it.

Maurice le Rutte.

Re: How does this list work

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

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Maurice le Rutte <mp...@oce.nl> wrote:

> For instances, I've modified the javac task to support the -source
> and -target options of Jdk1.4 (ok, nothing spectacular). How do I
> find out if other people have already done that for ant 1.4

You could search the archives (marc.theaimsgroup.com seems to be down
ATM, but there is another one at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/ant-dev%40jakarta.apache.org/>) or simply
ask if you cannot find anything there - AFAIK nobody has submitted a
patch for this yet.

> and if not, how do I submit these changes for approval?

See the patches section of <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html>.  
Send it to this list and use a meaningful subject line - maybe start
it with [PATCH] or [SUBMIT] so people can identify it quickly.

> I can't use CVS because the firewall blocks it.

Make sure your patch is a patch against source code as new as possible
anyway, i.e. please download the sources from the nightly builds area
<http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/> and create the
patch as diff output against this version.  There have been quite a
few changes since Ant 1.3 and it could be difficult to apply a patch
made against the 1.3 sources.

Stefan