> Probably we should calm down a bit because this has been > discussed earlier, > but I am not shure if we already agreed on braking > backwardscompatibility.
I believe this was discussed a *very* long time ago. I'm pretty sure "Ant 2 won't work with all existing build files" was on the website somewhere before I even started *using* Ant... > To support the compatibility-braking: > It'll make things easier, regarding implementing new features > and a new base > and stuff! This is true and agreed! > > To support costins point: > There are THOUSANDS (or even more) of build files out. Over a > hundred (I > have not counted them all) only in the apache-projects - even > more on source > forge ;-). It's an ILLUSION that the "build-masters" of all > these projects > will modify or strongly change ALL these build files just to > use an Ant 2.0! <snip> If people have perfectly good working build files for Ant 1, then they can keep them that way. I'd hope that Ant 1 will still be available from the website. It's just that people with Ant 1 builds and don't want to convert them to Ant 2 (which will hopefully be an easy process, if there's a tool for it) will have to stick to using Ant 1 and not get the benefits from Ant 2. I don't think that's a major problem, personally. Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
