On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:22:36 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <k...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Use the system version of `ant` on macOS platforms rather than downloading it > from apache.org. > > As noted in the bug report, we are seeing frequent GitHub Actions (GHA) > failures on macOS due to a timeout while attempting to download apache ant > 1.10.5. > > The JavaFX build uses `ant` to build the apps (so `gradle apps` requires it). > The installed version of ant on the macOS 11 systems that we use is ant > 1.10.12, which works fine to build the apps. Given that the GHA builds are > just a sanity test used as a help to reviewers and contributors, and that we > already relax the requirement to specify the exact versions for a few other > platform tools, there is no real downside to doing this. > > This PR only touches the GHA build script for the macOS job, so the GHA test > run is sufficient to test it. Marked as reviewed by arapte (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/879
