Le 16 févr. 2012 à 21:08, Bruce Atherton a écrit :
> It has but not for quite a long time. Look in the archives from 2001 to 2003
> for "Mutant"[1] which Conor proposed, and "Myrmidon"[2] which Peter Donald
> proposed back in 2000. You can still find them in the svn repository[3], [4].
>
> I think there was so much discussion on a new design of Ant that everyone
> just got exhausted talking about it. As I recall what finally brought it to a
> halt was Costin Manolache saying "Just refactor what you have while retaining
> backward compatibility."
>
> The general agreements that I remember, although I haven't trawled the
> mailing list to find references, were that backward binary compatibility
> could only be broken through an Ant 2.0 release, and that Ant 2.0 should do
> everything in its power to be build file compatible. The thinking then was an
> XSLT file could be provided if necessary although at this point I think we
> could provide an <upgrade-buildfile> task even if it just ran an XSLT, should
> that prove necessary. But I don't think it should be required if possible, at
> least not for several minor releases.
I agree, the build file should be maintained compatible. As I wrote earlier a
"version" tag should do the trick if new features need to break it a little
bit, no version tag would mean it is a <2.0 build file.
> This is a new group of Ant developers, though, and they may make different
> decisions than the ones back then did. If we find volunteers willing to step
> forward to help with the code. I can do the infrastructure things like
> setting up a place to put everything in subversion, perhaps in
> ant/sandbox/{some code name}. Any suggestions? All I can think of is pezant
> or something similarly punny. It could just be ant2proposal.
If it goes further, I will be happy to keep a eye around and discuss about it
but I won't be able to write any code.
Nicolas
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