Steff, It works like this
The committers, of whom I am but one, work directly in CVS. As people send in patches and new code, we apply those to the current code which is stored in the CVS repository. These are the source of the CVS commit messages you are seeing. Every night (where night is defined by someone's particular timezone and not mine), the latest code is fetched from CVS, is compiled, and then placed on the jakarta website as a nightly build. After some random time the committers decide that it would be nice to have a new release. There is no formal process for this decision. It is just a collective judgement call. The last release was 1.2. To get the latest code you have two choices. You can checkout all the code from CVS and build it yourself or you can just download the latest nightly build. If you have used CVS before, there is nothing particularly hard about the first approach. If you want to code in ant and submit patches this is definitely the way to go. The second approach is easier overall and is appropriate if you just want to use the latest ant. If you see a feature you like it may take a day or two to appear in the nightly build. Access to CVS is described here http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html whilst the nightly builds are located here http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/ The nightly builds for Ant is a service kindly provided by Sam Ruby. Due to some recent hardware changes at Apache, the nightly builds are currently unavailable but this should be rectified shortly. Note that both the CVS code and the nightly builds are not to be considered stable and may contain new features which have not been significantly tested. Conor -- Conor MacNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cortex eBusiness http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: steff [mailto:steff]On Behalf Of Stephane > Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 9:43 > To: ant-dev > Subject: versions > > > Hello all, > > it seems i am a little bit lost. > Since i decided to subscribe to the ant mailing list, > i received a few hundreds (thousands ? ) new patch that have been > committed. > But i never heard about any new version . > (i got 1.2) > > Where can I get the most recent version of this smashing ant ? > > Steff > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
