features not backward compatible

[David Kavanagh <da...@dotech.com>]

I just noticed a 1.5+ feature that is going into Ant 1.7. Many months 
ago, I had a 1.4+ feature that I wanted to get put into Ant, but it was 
rejected because it wouldn't be backward compatible to version 1.2.2. 
Has something changed? If so, I'd like to offer the <hotswap> target. It 
has a home at http://hotswap.dev.java.net/ and I'd be happy to 
contribute that to the main ant project. I've been using it at work in 
our builds for all that time and it is robust and ready to be used.

Thanks,
David


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Re: features not backward compatible

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

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, David Kavanagh <da...@dotech.com> wrote:

> I just noticed a 1.5+ feature that is going into Ant 1.7.

Yes, but into the optional parts.

> Many months ago, I had a 1.4+ feature that I wanted to get put into
> Ant, but it was rejected because it wouldn't be backward compatible
> to version 1.2.2.

I don't think this has been the reason.

It couldn't become part of Ant's "core tasks" because of this and it
still can't today.  It could be an optional task, but we are quite
reluctant to adding any new tasks these days.

Stefan

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