Re: PATCH: add note in build scripts that they work with Ant 1.3 but not with Ant 1.4

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> I spent an hour or so scratching my head trying to figure out why Struts
> builds ok with Ant 1.3, but with 1.4 fails to copy over struts.jar into the
> distributables. It is because the build scripts use the "available" task to
> check for the existence of directories, and whereas Ant 1.3 had one
> attribute, "file", that worked for both files and dirs, Ant 1.4 expects you
> to use "file" and "dir" respectively.
> 
> The patches below simply make a note of the incompatibility...
> 

I'm going to go ahead and apply these, but I've heard that the Ant crowd
is going to fix this by re-enabling backwards compatibility on the
available task.  Thanks to GUMP, we found out that they broke a *lot* of
build scripts when they made that change :-).

Personally, I'm going to stick with released versions of Ant -- I do
enough bleeding edge stuff already.

Craig

RE: PATCH: add note in build scripts that they work with Ant 1.3 but not with Ant 1.4

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Conor MacNeill wrote:

> Craig,
> 
> I suggest you don't apply this patch for a few reasons:
> 1. We are going to fix it in Ant CVS so that it is backward compatible.
> 2. There is no such thing as Ant 1.4
> 

That makes sense to me.  Thanks for being responsive on this.

> I'm sure your crowd will forgive our crowd for this temporary problem :-)
> 

Well, I've caused a few problems like this (with both Struts and Tomcat),
so I can certainly be sympathetic :-).

> Conor
> 

Craig

RE: PATCH: add note in build scripts that they work with Ant 1.3 but not with Ant 1.4

[Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>]

Craig,

I suggest you don't apply this patch for a few reasons:
1. We are going to fix it in Ant CVS so that it is backward compatible.
2. There is no such thing as Ant 1.4

I'm sure your crowd will forgive our crowd for this temporary problem :-)

Conor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 2:33 AM
> To: 'struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Re: PATCH: add note in build scripts that they work with Ant
> 1.3 but not with Ant 1.4
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Colin Sampaleanu wrote:
>
> > I spent an hour or so scratching my head trying to figure out why Struts
> > builds ok with Ant 1.3, but with 1.4 fails to copy over
> struts.jar into the
> > distributables. It is because the build scripts use the
> "available" task to
> > check for the existence of directories, and whereas Ant 1.3 had one
> > attribute, "file", that worked for both files and dirs, Ant 1.4
> expects you
> > to use "file" and "dir" respectively.
> >
> > The patches below simply make a note of the incompatibility...
> >
>
> I'm going to go ahead and apply these, but I've heard that the Ant crowd
> is going to fix this by re-enabling backwards compatibility on the
> available task.  Thanks to GUMP, we found out that they broke a *lot* of
> build scripts when they made that change :-).
>
> Personally, I'm going to stick with released versions of Ant -- I do
> enough bleeding edge stuff already.
>
> Craig
>
>