bodewig 2003/02/18 23:34:31
Modified: . WHATSNEW
Log:
housekeeping
Revision Changes Path
1.357 +32 -23 ant/WHATSNEW
Index: WHATSNEW
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RCS file: /home/cvs/ant/WHATSNEW,v
retrieving revision 1.356
retrieving revision 1.357
diff -u -r1.356 -r1.357
--- WHATSNEW 9 Feb 2003 12:17:16 -0000 1.356
+++ WHATSNEW 19 Feb 2003 07:34:30 -0000 1.357
@@ -52,12 +52,13 @@
* <junit> will now produce output when a test times out as well.
-* The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute status of
files
- against whatever local tree they are run against and, optionally, will not
- process a file if it is current. Previously you had to process everything
- unless you ran against the default folder which wasn't the normal use-case
for
- ant-starteam. The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly
- making it a more generally useful tool.
+* The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute
+ status of files against whatever local tree they are run against
+ and, optionally, will not process a file if it is current.
+ Previously you had to process everything unless you ran against the
+ default folder which wasn't the normal use-case for ant-starteam.
+ The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly making
+ it a more generally useful tool.
* <replace> would count some internal character replacements when
reporting the number of replaced tokens.
@@ -116,14 +117,23 @@
Package information and addition of classes specified in the Class-Path
element of a Jar's manifest.
-* It is now possible in <exec> to resolve the executable to a project
basedir or
- execution dir relative executable. The resolveExecutable must be used to
- pick up such executables.
+* It is now possible in <exec> to resolve the executable to a project
+ basedir or execution dir relative executable. The resolveExecutable
+ must be used to pick up such executables.
-* splash screen wouldn't disppear when build was finished.
+* splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished.
-* <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently to
either
- a property or a file (or both)
+* <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently
+ to either a property or a file (or both)
+
+* <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s.
+
+* <exec> now supports OS/2.
+
+* <zip> and friends would only update/recreate existing archives if
+ the files to add/update have been newer than the archive.
+
+* <javadoc>'s <link> element could fail for offline="true" on some JDKs.
Other changes:
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@@ -132,7 +142,8 @@
* The start and end tokens for <translate> may now be longer than a
single character.
-* <setproxy> lets you set the username and password for proxies that want
authentication
+* <setproxy> lets you set the username and password for proxies that
+ want authentication
* <loadproperties> has a new encoding attribute.
@@ -201,8 +212,6 @@
works for the code generated by the Sun java compiler. It may not work for
all compilers.
-* <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s.
-
* a new attribute "globalopts" can be added to all Perforce tasks.
You can put in it all the strings described by p4 help usage. Refer to
the docs for more information.
@@ -211,15 +220,15 @@
replacing in files that are in a different encoding than the
platform's default.
-* The <exec> task may now have its input redirected from either a file or
- a string from the build file. The error output can be separated to a
different
- file when outut is redirected. standard error may be logged to the Ant log
- when redirecting output to a file
+* The <exec> task may now have its input redirected from either a file
+ or a string from the build file. The error output can be separated
+ to a different file when outut is redirected. standard error may be
+ logged to the Ant log when redirecting output to a file
-* The <java> task also supports the input redirection and separate error
streams
- introduced to the <exec> task. In addition, it is now possible to save the
- output into a property for use within the build file as was possible with
<exec>
- in Ant 1.5
+* The <java> task also supports the input redirection and separate
+ error streams introduced to the <exec> task. In addition, it is now
+ possible to save the output into a property for use within the build
+ file as was possible with <exec> in Ant 1.5
Changes from Ant 1.5.1Beta1 to 1.5.1
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