I'd be fine with going all the way to 1.7.1, as it's distributed with Ubuntu and other Linux distros, but I'm fine with 1.7.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Mark Hindess<mark.hind...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > >
