Hello Andre, yes, adding a Main.getShortVersion() would be acceptable.
are you after a version string containing only digits and dots like what AntVersion.getVersion() is computing ? The version from version.txt sometimes has an alphabetic suffix like "1.7.0beta" or "1.9.0alpha" or "1.9.0rc1". Regards, Antoine On Nov 22, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote: > Hi, > > As part of my work on issue 55489, "Allow specifying of alternative user > agent for the 'get' task", I need to be able to include the Ant version > string in the user-agent (Apache Ant/0.0), but using the following: > > getProject().getProperty(MagicNames.ANT_VERSION) > > or > > Main.getVersion() > > both returning a long version string of them form: > > "Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3alpha compiled on November 22 2013" > > From what I can see there is no method to get a 'short' version, unless > I am not looking in the right place. > > If there isn't already something, would adding a Main.getShortVersion() be > acceptable? > > Regards > > Andre --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
