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svn commit: r791821 - in /tomcat: build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt

Author: kkolinko
Date: Tue Jul  7 13:12:05 2009
New Revision: 791821

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=791821&view=rev
Log:
Document minimum required Ant version to be 1.6.2.
Note, that /tomcat-doc/building.html already mentions 1.6.2,
and that e.g. rev.791806 requires Ant 1.6.1 or later

Modified:
    tomcat/build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt
    tomcat/container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
    tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt

Modified: tomcat/build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt?rev=791821&r1=791820&r2=791821&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt (original)
+++ tomcat/build/tc5.5.x/BUILDING.txt Tue Jul  7 13:12:05 2009
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
   into which you installed the JDK release.
 
 
-(1) Install Apache Ant 1.5.x on your computer
+(1) Install Apache Ant 1.6.2 or later on your computer
 
-* If Apache Ant 1.5.x is already installed on your computer, skip to (2).
+* If Apache Ant 1.6.2 or later is already installed on your computer, skip to (2).
 
-* Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.5.x from:
+* Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.6.2 or later from:
 
     http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
 
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@
   available, which will be used to actually perform the build.
 
 
-(2) Install Subversion 1.3.x on your computer
+(2) Install Subversion 1.3.x or later on your computer
 
-* If Subversion 1.3.x is already installed on your computer, skip to (3).
+* If Subversion 1.3.x or later is already installed on your computer, skip to (3).
 
-* Download a binary distribution of Subversion 1.3.x from:
+* Download a binary distribution of Subversion 1.3.x or later from:
 
-    http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
+    http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html
 
 * Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the
   Subversion release resides in its own directory.
@@ -143,22 +143,22 @@
 
 In addition, "ant build-depends" will build packages that 
 tomcat depends on ( commons-logging for now ), to ease fixes
-and debuging in those packages.
+and debugging in those packages.
 
 (6) Building The "compat" Package
 
 Tomcat 5.5 is designed to run on J2SE 5.0, but will run on
-J2SE versions 1.3 and 1.4 as well as long as the compatability
-package is placed in the server classpath.  See "RUNNING.txt"
-in this directory for running instructions.  To build the
-compat package, do
+J2SE version 1.4 as well as long as the compatibility package
+is placed in the server classpath.  See "RUNNING.txt" in this
+directory for running instructions.  To build the compat
+package, do
 
     cd ${tomcat.source}
     ant build-compat
 
 (7) Building the servlet and jsp API documentation
 
-The documentation can be easly rebuild, do
+The documentation can be easily rebuild, do
     cd ${tomcat.source}/build
     ant dist-javadoc
 

Modified: tomcat/container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml?rev=791821&r1=791820&r2=791821&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/container/tc5.5.x/webapps/docs/changelog.xml Tue Jul  7 13:12:05 2009
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@
         files when fixing line endings. Explicitly specify encoding when
         compiling (issue <bug>47149</bug>). (kkolinko)
       </fix>
+      <docs>
+        Document that building Tomcat requires Ant 1.6.2 or later. (kkolinko)
+      </docs>
     </changelog>
   </subsection>
   <subsection name="Catalina">

Modified: tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt?rev=791821&r1=791820&r2=791821&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt (original)
+++ tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt Tue Jul  7 13:12:05 2009
@@ -65,16 +65,6 @@
   +1: markt
   -1: 
 
-* Document minimum required Ant version to be 1.6.2, instead of 1.5.x
-  Note, that http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/building.html already
-  mentions 1.6.2 since rev.351798, thus for more than 3.5 years.
-  (Though it is a docs patch, I think it is an important change)
-  Patch for BUILDING.txt:
-  http://people.apache.org/~kkolinko/patches/2009-07-04_tc55_antversion.patch
-  +1: kkolinko, rjung
-  +1: markt - min JRE version is 1.4, even with the compat package
-  -1:
-
 * Fix https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38797
   Reverts previous fix for
   https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37933 and implements an



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