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@@ -9,46 +9,24 @@
<body>
- <section name="Ant 1.6beta3">
- <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a
- href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As
+ <section name="Ant 1.6.0">
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a
+ href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
- <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report
- any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
- the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>
-
- <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
+ <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
- <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line
- <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p>
-
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki
</a>.</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 1.5.4">
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
- </p>
-
- <div class="warning">
- <div class="label">Note</div>
- <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports
- JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or
- later
- </div>
- </div>
-
- </section>
-
<section name="Apache Ant">
<p>
@@ -100,7 +78,7 @@
<section name="Documentation">
<p>
-You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.5.4)
+You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.6.0)
<a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
</p>
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@@ -166,6 +166,11 @@
<td>1.5.4</td>
<td>12 August 2003</td>
</tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td>1.6.0</td>
+ <td>18 December 2003</td>
+ </tr>
</table>
</answer>
</faq>
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@@ -5,30 +5,24 @@
<author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author>
+ <author email="">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author>
<title>News</title>
</properties>
<body>
- <section name="Ant 1.6beta3">
- <h3>December 5, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta3 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a
- href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As
+ <section name="Ant 1.6.0">
+ <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a
+ href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
- <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report
- any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
- the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>
-
- <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
+ <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
- <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line
- <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p>
-
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki
</a>.</p>
@@ -37,8 +31,8 @@
<section name="Ant 1.5.4">
<h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
@@ -48,8 +42,8 @@
<div class="warning">
<div class="label">Note</div>
- <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports
- JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or
+ <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
+ JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
later.
</div>
</div>
@@ -103,43 +97,21 @@
<section name="Ant 1.5.3">
<h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1">
- <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>.
- Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
- please raise a bug on
- <a
href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
- or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
- </p>
- </section>
-
-
<section name="Ant 1.5.2">
<h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
- <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1">
- <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
- download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/">
- http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>.
- If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
- </p>
- </section>
-
<section name="Ant Top Level Project">
<h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
<p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
@@ -154,21 +126,13 @@
<section name="Ant 1.5.1">
<h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
- <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">
+ <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">
download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to
join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1">
- <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- </section>
-
<section name="Ant 1.5">
<h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script
available</h3>
<p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
@@ -183,30 +147,6 @@
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 1.5Beta3">
- <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3>
- <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Ant 1.5Beta2">
- <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3>
- <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Ant 1.5Beta1">
- <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- </section>
-
<section name="Ant wins again!">
<a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com"><img
src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108"
width="181" align="right"/></a>
<h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
@@ -257,68 +197,12 @@
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design">
- <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
- available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
- complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
- give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
-
- <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
- and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
- can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
- discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
- </section>
-
<section name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com
Builder">
<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a
href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
</section>
- <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements">
- <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways
never conceived when it
- was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully
evolve and grow, there
- are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent
and which need to
- be addressed.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to
define what Ant 2.0 will
- encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a
number of goals including:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will
be bound.</li>
- <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task
writers.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to
be "dropped" in.</li>
- <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration
with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The
intention is to
- make this the last time that will happen.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being
accepted on the
- Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for
consideration. The
- requirements are being collected into a document which is available
- <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will
be excepted
- until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be
discussed
- for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the
development of Ant 1.x are
- available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These
continue to be
- relevant to Ant 2.0.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
- <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
- your ideas.
- </p>
- </section>
</body>
</document>
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--- index.html 4 Dec 2003 23:57:33 -0000 1.296
+++ index.html 18 Dec 2003 21:47:06 -0000 1.297
@@ -172,40 +172,21 @@
<div class="content">
<h1 class="title">Welcome</h1>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.6beta3"></a>
- Ant 1.6beta3
+ <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a>
+ Ant 1.6.0
</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a
href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
- <p>We encourage user to give this beta a
release a try and report
- any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
- the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>
- <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most
prominently support
+ <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features,
most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
- <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on
line
- <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p>
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been
covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki
</a>.</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5.4"></a>
- Ant 1.5.4
- </h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
- </p>
- <div class="warning">
- <div class="label">Note</div>
- <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports
- JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or
- later
- </div>
- </div>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Apache Ant"></a>
Apache Ant
</h3>
@@ -253,7 +234,7 @@
Documentation
</h3>
<p>
-You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.5.4)
+You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.6.0)
<a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
</p>
<p>
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+++ faq.html 18 Dec 2003 21:47:06 -0000 1.88
@@ -530,6 +530,16 @@
12 August 2003
</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
+ valign="top" align="left">
+ 1.6.0
+ </td>
+ <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
+ valign="top" align="left">
+ 18 December 2003
+ </td>
+ </tr>
</table>
<p class="faq">
<a name="no-gnu-tar"></a>
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--- antnews.html 4 Dec 2003 23:57:33 -0000 1.84
+++ antnews.html 18 Dec 2003 21:47:06 -0000 1.85
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
<meta name="email" content="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
<meta name="author" content="Magesh Umasankar">
<meta name="email" content="">
+ <meta name="author" content="Antoine Levy-Lambert">
+ <meta name="email" content="">
</head>
<body>
@@ -174,23 +176,18 @@
<div class="content">
<h1 class="title">News</h1>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.6beta3"></a>
- Ant 1.6beta3
+ <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a>
+ Ant 1.6.0
</h3>
- <h3>December 5, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta3 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for
<a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As
+ <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
- <p>We encourage user to give this beta a
release a try and report
- any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
- the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>
- <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most
prominently support
+ <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features,
most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
- <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on
line
- <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p>
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been
covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki
</a>.</p>
@@ -199,8 +196,8 @@
Ant 1.5.4
</h3>
<h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes
a problem with the
<code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
@@ -208,8 +205,8 @@
VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p>
<div class="warning">
<div class="label">Note</div>
- <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports
- JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or
+ <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
+ JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
later.
</div>
</div>
@@ -262,43 +259,20 @@
Ant 1.5.3
</h3>
<h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"></a>
- Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1
- </h3>
- <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available
for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>.
- Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
- please raise a bug on
- <a
href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
- or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a>
Ant 1.5.2
</h3>
<h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
- <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now
available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
+ <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is
available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>.
If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1"></a>
- Ant 1.5.2Beta1
- </h3>
- <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1
Available!</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is
now available for
- download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/">
- http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>.
- If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a>
Ant Top Level Project
</h3>
@@ -316,21 +290,12 @@
Ant 1.5.1
</h3>
<h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
- <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now
available for
- <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">
+ <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still
available for
+ <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">
download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to
join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1"></a>
- Ant 1.5.1Beta1
- </h3>
- <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available
!</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is
now available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Ant 1.5"></a>
Ant 1.5
</h3>
@@ -344,33 +309,6 @@
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5Beta3"></a>
- Ant 1.5Beta3
- </h3>
- <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3>
- <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now
available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5Beta2"></a>
- Ant 1.5Beta2
- </h3>
- <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3>
- <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now
available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 1.5Beta1"></a>
- Ant 1.5Beta1
- </h3>
- <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3>
- <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now
available for
- download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
- discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
- </p>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Ant wins again!"></a>
Ant wins again!
</h3>
@@ -424,65 +362,11 @@
download area</a>.
</p>
<h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design"></a>
- Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design
- </h3>
- <p>A commented version of the collected user
requirements is now
- available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
- complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
- give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
- <p>Several details can only be decided in
the light of real code
- and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
- can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
- discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
- <h3 class="section">
<a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a>
Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder
</h3>
<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant
on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May�30�2001. See <a
href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
- <h3 class="section">
- <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements"></a>
- Ant 2.0 Requirements
- </h3>
- <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has
been used in ways never conceived when it
- was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully
evolve and grow, there
- are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent
and which need to
- be addressed.
- </p>
- <p>
- As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to
define what Ant 2.0 will
- encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a
number of goals including:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will
be bound.</li>
- <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task
writers.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to
be "dropped" in.</li>
- <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration
with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The
intention is to
- make this the last time that will happen.
- </p>
- <p>
- To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being
accepted on the
- Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for
consideration. The
- requirements are being collected into a document which is available
- <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will
be excepted
- until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be
discussed
- for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
- </p>
- <p>
- For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the
development of Ant 1.x are
- available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These
continue to be
- relevant to Ant 2.0.
- </p>
- <p>
- If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
- <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
- your ideas.
- </p>
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