It is what I used and how the patch was accepted, but since I was told it wasn't ideal I wanted to see if there were ways to deal with this going forward.
André-John Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. > On Dec 9, 2013, at 15:56, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looks like Main.getAntVersion() is your friend. > > Matt > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Andre-John Mas <andrejohn....@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This was the Get Task, whereby I was getting the ant version for use in >> the user-agent response. I am using the value uninterpreted. >> >> André-John >> >> Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. >> >>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 14:23, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Are you looking for compatibility with the version? I.e., this task will >>> work on versions >= n? A commonly taken approach there is to use the >>> presence of some particular class introduced in the target version, >> rather >>> than fiddling with version numbers per se. >>> >>> HTH, >>> Matt >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Andre-John Mas <andrejohn....@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I recently made a code contribution and had the task get the version >> from >>>> the Main class. I appreciate this probably want the best approach and I >> am >>>> trying to consider options going forward. I had looked at the >> ant.version >>>> property, but the is only available in the project scope and also >> limited >>>> to the 'long' version. >>>> >>>> Some possibilities I am thinking of going forward: >>>> - Version class >>>> - AntRuntime class >>>> >>>> Does anyone else have suggestions or preferences as to the best way >> going >>>> forward? >>>> >>>> André-John >>>> >>>> Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
