Over the last few days i have upgraded our packaged Apache Ant at $FORREST_HOME/tools/ant to be Ant-1.7.1 See r700693.
Our Ant was 1.6.5 which was released on 02-Jun-2005. 1.7.0 was released 19-Dec-2006 1.7.1 was released 27-Jun-2008 Also upgraded some of Ant's supporting libraries in tools/ant/lib. Not yet done "xml-commons-resolver" because we still have FOR-889 on Windows, which we cannot encourage a Windows developer to help. Not yet done "ant-contrib" because i encountered a problem. Will look at that next. It took a lot of testing and debugging. Our problems, not Ant's. The main issue was in our "validate-xdocs" task, which broke with out-of-memory issues. After some time i found it was a strange bug with a previous commit that did not show up until this Ant upgrade. It is something to do with classpath - see r700348. Anyway, it works now but needs more investigation. As usual the tools/ant/bin/* scripts needed our changes applied. This is mainly to force forrest to use our Ant, rather than any old system-wide Ant. Windows users beware. The Ant developers have tried hard to have a start script that works on various Windows flavours. Then i added our minor changes, and i have not Windows to test with. So if you use plain Windows, rather than via Cygwin, then things might not work. -David
