A later exchange with Steve Loughran throws cold water on the idea of rushing
commons-net to get into the next ant release. I think he's right, and it
gives us the chance to do 1.2 right, so I have changed my mind on rolling out
1.2 now.
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On Friday 16 January 2004 4:56 am, Steve Loughran wrote:
> Steve Cohen wrote:
> > Another issue to consider. I don't know if it's strictly a 1.6.1 issue
> > or further down the line but the ant developers should consider it.
> >
> > I have been working with the jakarta-commons/net project to create a more
> > capable system, able to detect what system its FTPClient class is
> > connecting with. You may remember several complaints over the last
> > couple of months about our <ftp> task not working on non-unix ftp
> > servers. The improvements in commons/net will allow the correct server
> > to be auto-detected in the most common cases, and in those odd cases
> > where this is not possible, it will be possible to indicate explicitly
> > which parser is to be used (i.e. in ant, a new parameter to the task).
> >
> > Thus it will be possible to rewrite our <ftp> task to solve these long
> > standing problems.
> >
> > This version of commons-net (1.2.0) has not yet been released but can
> > probably be released in less than a week.
> >
> > It seems from this thread that these changes will come too late for ant
> > 1.6.1. Please correct me if that's wrong. Can someone tell me what
> > plans, if any, are contemplated for ant 1.6.2?
>
> I'd prefer to target this as a 1.7 rework, as it would have side effects
> (specifically, need a newer version of commons.net)
>
>
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To be honest, this is the response I was expecting, and it makes sense. In
fact, without any changes to Ant, simply dropping in the 1.2.0 release of
commons-net (when it's released) will gain the advantage of autodetection for
Unix, Windows NT, OS/2 and VMS ftp systems. It is only for any outliers to
this group that Ant would have to be recoded. Realizing this, I would say
it's better to wait until 1.7 (but why not 1.6.2?)
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