I've just noticed that our web site says Harmony developers need: Apache Ant version 1.6.5 or higher
but that the changes I checked in last night (to make accessibility and security run the tests by running them in the hdk rather than "in" classlib) use <junit><batchtest><zipfileset>s which were new in 1.7.0. I'm happy to back out the change temporarily. However: 1) I think that requiring 1.7.0 which was released in December 2006 isn't unreasonable. 2) I think running tests in the hdk is desirable and using jars (and thus zipfilesets) is the natural way to do this. 3) I think running tests in two ways (i.e. in classlib and in the hdk) is undesirable since most developers will only use one of the ways (in classlib) and thus not notice when the other way breaks. 4) I think having one way to run the tests will make the ant infrastructure easier to maintain. so I think requiring 1.7.0 is probably the right thing to do at some point. Why not now? What do you think? Regards, Mark.
