stevel 2003/09/27 20:56:46 Modified: . Tag: ANT_16_BRANCH welcome.html Log: all proofreadings gratefully accepted :) Revision Changes Path No revision No revision 1.2.2.2 +5 -5 ant/welcome.html Index: welcome.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/ant/welcome.html,v retrieving revision 1.2.2.1 retrieving revision 1.2.2.2 diff -u -r1.2.2.1 -r1.2.2.2 --- welcome.html 27 Sep 2003 07:04:19 -0000 1.2.2.1 +++ welcome.html 28 Sep 2003 03:56:46 -0000 1.2.2.2 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ over the past four years, it has moved from a tool used simply to build Tomcat cross-platform, to a tool used across many open source projects, and now to a tool used by almost all Java projects. Indeed, -pretty much competitor in the Java space is a sibling project under +pretty much the only competitor in the Java space is a sibling project under the Apache banner, <A HREF="http://maven.apache.org/"; TARGET="other">Maven</A>. One of the obvious signs of Ant's success is that all the popular IDEs, from the Open Source -Emacs JDE, Eclipse, NetBeans and jEdit - @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ development. </P> <P>Whether we call the next version of Ant 1.7 or 2.0 is something we -have yet to decide. Maybe should call it 3.0 just to surprise people.</P> +have yet to decide. Maybe we should call it 3.0 just to surprise people.</P> <H2>What has changed</H2> <P>Look at the <A HREF="WHATSNEW" TARGET="other">WHATSNEW</A> document to get a full list of changes. Here are some of the core @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ <H3>No more Java1.1</H3> <P>We got fed up of jumping through reflection hoops to do everything from weak references to setting file timestamps. After consultation -with the Ant user mail list, Ant1.6 only runs on Ant1.2 or later. It +with the Ant user mail list, Ant1.6 only runs on Java1.2 or later. It can still cross compile to Java1.1 if that is what you have to do. We haven't completely purged all 1.1 references in the docs, or 1.1 support from the source, but that will come over time.</P> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ and some kind of task predefinition declarations in antlibs. With the latter, you will be able to write a predefined task -such as a <javac> derivative with the compiler options set, and then use -it any of your build files. This is all to experimental to get into +it any of your build files. This is all too experimental to get into Ant1.6 -expect it in the successor. For now, start using antlibs and use the <taskdef> task to load them into your projects.</P> <H3>XML Namespace aware</H3> @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ replicable test and a patch to fix the problem. Please, please, please, do a search on bugzilla first. You do not want to be the seventy-third person to complain that Ant1.6 doesn't do something -that +that it should. </P> <P>Thanks, </P>
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