Survey of open source developers

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/foss-survey/ Looks like the LSE is trying to work out why people give away code Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.

Re: Log Flushing

2011-05-16 Thread Kevin Jackson
> je suis tres occupe en ce moment a me chercher un nouveau job. Congratulations. Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Has anyone got any thoughts (positive or negative) about this?

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Jackson
http://code.google.com/p/winant/ I'm just looking at html5boilerplate and the build script is IMHO fairly standard for a none build person and I came across this reference to an 'installer for ant' Weird? Should we add it to the external tools section? Kev -

Re: Committing to antlib sandbox

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin Jackson
>> Am I supposed to checkout each antlib independently > > That's how I do it.  Honestly I never expected people wanted to check > out all-trunks at all.  The scripts that are there to create or promote > antlibs expect that you have checked out the antlibs individually as > they need to work on th

Committing to antlib sandbox

2011-03-05 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I've checked out the all-trunks repository and I can't commit? kevj@deb-dev:~/_code/ant-sandbox-all-trunks$ svn ci minify/NOTICE -m "update date" svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to MKACTIVITY request for '/repos/asf/!sv

Re: list iteration (was: svn commit: r1066963 ...)

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> I tried to introduce some micro-optimizations >> (pretty much like these) into the Tomcat codebase 8 years ago, but was >> met with 'meh why bother?' responses as the thinking was that the vm >> would pretty much make optimizations pointless.  I suppose it depends >> on where the hotspots a

Re: svn commit: r1066963 - in /ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools: ant/ ant/taskdefs/ ant/taskdefs/cvslib/ ant/taskdefs/email/ ant/taskdefs/optional/ ant/taskdefs/optional/depend/ ant/taskdefs/o

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Jackson
>> I guess this brings up a bigger issue (again) which is when will we >> modernize Ant? > > Oh, we just did.  Ant 1.8.x dropped Java 1.3 ;-) > > It's been our community that didn't want to take a bigger step forward. We're l33t bleeding edge here :) So I guess the next optimization task for us n

Re: svn commit: r1066963 - in /ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools: ant/ ant/taskdefs/ ant/taskdefs/cvslib/ ant/taskdefs/email/ ant/taskdefs/optional/ ant/taskdefs/optional/depend/ ant/taskdefs/o

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> Interesting discussion - I tried to introduce some micro-optimizations >> (pretty much like these) into the Tomcat codebase 8 years ago, but was >> met with 'meh why bother?' responses as the thinking was that the vm >> would pretty much make optimizations pointless.  I suppose it depends >

Re: svn commit: r1066963 - in /ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools: ant/ ant/taskdefs/ ant/taskdefs/cvslib/ ant/taskdefs/email/ ant/taskdefs/optional/ ant/taskdefs/optional/depend/ ant/taskdefs/o

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> On 02/04/2011 09:03 AM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: >>> I did not know that using a final variable for the upper bound of a loop >>> instead of something.size() makes a difference in terms of performance. > >> Generally the preferred idiom is to use an iterator, > > Absolutely agreed, but

Re: [VOTE] Second Attempt to Release .NET Antlib 1.1

2011-01-28 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Stefan, > after fixing the NOTICE file and applying the trademark policy I've > rebuilt the distribution from svn revision 1064451 of > > > Tarballs at , Maven artifacts > at >

Re: Get involved with the project

2010-12-25 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Hello to all the Ant Developers. Merry Christmas to everyone! Merry Christmas to you too. > I would like to know, who should i ask if i want to get involved with the > project (e.g. Find/Fix bugs etc.)? Should i search for a mentor, or should i > just try to fix bugs from the list by mys

Merry christmas etc

2010-12-24 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, Merry Christmas to all the ant developers Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Re: [VOTE] third attempt - release of ant 1.8.2

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, Just tested on debian squeeze with openjdk I still had to download junit 3.8.2 to be able to get a clean bootstrap/build which I con't remember having to do previously? If this is ok, then +1 Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [VOTE] release of ant 1.8.2

2010-12-16 Thread Kevin Jackson
HI Antoine, > Kevin, I do not know whether this makes sense or not but I have both > junit-3.8.2.jar and junit-4.8.1.jar in lib/optional when I build ant. > The build file checks the presence of junit.framework.TestCase to set or not > the property junit.present. > > So in fact the error means tha

broken link on live manual pages?

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, http://ant.apache.org/manual/tasklist.html This is giving me: 404 not found Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Re: [VOTE] release of ant 1.8.2

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Antoine, I'm bootstrapping on Windows XP SP3 behind a proxy that requires authentication with oracle jdk6 (1.6.22) compile-tests: test-jar: BUILD FAILED C:\Temp\apache-ant-1.8.2-src\apache-ant-1.8.2\build.xml:986: The following error occurred while executing this line: C:\Temp\apache-ant-1.

Re: [VOTE] release of ant 1.8.2

2010-12-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: > Hi, > > as announced I have built a release candidate for Ant 1.8.2. > > This is available for download from http://people.apache.org/~antoine/dist/ I'll try to test on both debian squeeze and windows over the next couple of days

ant-minify antlib

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, Last year I committed ant-minify (at the time called compress) antlib to sandbox. This is currently in active use at the ecommerce company where I used to work (and I believe it's also been used by another company I have contacts with). However right now it's languishing in the sandbox w

Re: Vote to promote VSS antlib out of sandbox

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/antlibs/vss/ We now have a promoted vss antlib. I've also updated the xdocs to reflect this, but I'm unsure about the correct steps to publish changes to the site. Thanks to Stefan for promote.xml - the largest portion of the time was taken up with me no

Re: openhatch

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Wouldn't this imply we have open issues that are good candidates for > people who want to get their feet wet with open source software (we > likely have) and have experienced developers around who are available to > mentor said people? > > If this is true, I'd encourage the potential mentors

Re: Vote to promote VSS antlib out of sandbox

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote: >  We've already had a vote on this which passed. > http://marc.info/?l=ant-dev&m=127697274731069&w=2 > > I'd change point c to just removing the old code from core. Good point I forgot that VSS was wrapped up in that vote Kev

Re: Vote to promote VSS antlib out of sandbox

2010-08-31 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, It's been a week (or slightly over) since I called the vote and it seems that this time we squeaked through with: 5 +1s from me, Stefan, Bruce, Peter and Conor no vetoes so vss antlib is in the clear (at last!) I have the day off tomorrow (Vietnamese Independence Day), so I will get working

openhatch

2010-08-28 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, http://openhatch.org/ This is a community site for all open source projects - do you think it would be valuable to add the ant bugzilla to this? Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additiona

Vote to promote VSS antlib out of sandbox

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, I've not been very active lately (for a variety of reasons) and I realise that it's been a couple of years since we last had a vote on the VSS antlib currently in sandbox limbo. Given that MSDN licenses are available to apache committers, there's now a chance that someone has access to a

Re: [VOTE] Apache Compress Antlib 1.0 - Take 2

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> svn: revision 987994 of >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/antlibs/compress/tags/1_0/ > >> Distribution files: http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/compress/ > >> Maven artifacts: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheant-133/org/apache/ant/ant-compress/1.0/ > >>

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Compress Antlib 1.0

2010-08-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I know you have voted +1 (as did Martijn who raised the same issue) but > if you prefer me to reroll the release with a handcrafted README > pointing to docs/ and without a WHATSNEW I can certainly do that. +1 Kev - To un

Re: Adding Jon Schneider to Ant PMC

2010-07-07 Thread Kevin Jackson
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Conor MacNeill wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce that the Ant PMC has voted to add Jon Schneider > as a member of the PMC. Congrats Jon Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.

Re: Contacting vendors

2010-07-06 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> Sure. How about this as a first attempt. Feedback and suggestions >> appreciated. > How about adding that of course the customers can continue to use the current version of Ant as is with the tasks integrated and that it will only affect people that use the latest versions (ok my wording i

Re: [VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, Sorry a little late to the party... > 1. Should the following commercial tasks be dropped from being distributed > with the Ant release? > > [  ]  Continuous/Synergy tasks:  CCMCheckin, CCMCheckout, CCMCheckinTask, > CCMReconfigure, CCMCreateTask > [  ]  Clearcase tasks: CCCheckin, CCCheckout

Re: Visual SourceSafe Antlib (was [DISCUSS] Commercial Tasks in Ant)

2010-06-20 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I've got access to Visual SourceSafe now, so between you and me and Stefan > we could probably get it out of the sandbox. > > I've added to the tests in the last couple of days. One downside to the way > they are currently laid out is that you have to do a test build followed by > a cleanup

Re: [DISCUSS] Commercial Tasks in Ant

2010-06-02 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > What I'd like to suggest is that we move all the tasks based on commercial > software out of the Ant release and into their own Antlibs. This has already > been done with the Borland Starteam tasks, and The Microsoft Visual > Sourcesafe package has been moved but not yet released (and so old

Re: [VOTE] Ant source tree reorganization

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Jesse Glick wrote: > Should the Ant source tree (src/main/ and perhaps also src/tests/) be split > into subtrees? > > [ ] No, leave it the way it is - one big tree, using to > conditionally compile pieces and route classes to various JARs. > > [ ] Yes, split

Re: [VOTE] use nexus for maven upload of ant release

2010-05-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > This wasnt part of the vote, but I am also > +1 for putting the upload procedure in a common.xml +1 > +1 for using Ivy for uploading +1 > +1 for including a src.zip into our distro (was asked by Brian on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2706) >   I like getting information

Re: [VOTE] use nexus for maven upload of ant release

2010-05-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > We should probably extract the steps into targets of the "common" build > infrastructure so each Antlib build will benefit from it instantly. +1 for this > >> Do we want to use nexus to upload our ant release to nexus > > Since the only other option seems to be to not publish to the Maven

1.8.1

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi sorry I didn't even get chance to download and test this release this time :( Good work on getting a point release done so quickly Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: removing ant-stylebook ?

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Antoine, > we are shipping a jar with one "optional task" called stylebook. > > I was thinking of removing this one for Ant 1.8.1 and further. It has been > deprecated for ages. > > The doc is here [1]. > > I thought about it because I noticed that I removed prematurely the POM file > for thi

Re: [Fwd: Re: upload of ant's 1.8.0 artifacts to maven]

2010-02-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Antoine, > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ant/ant/1.8.0/ Great stuff, rather you than me navigating the treacherous maven waters... Thanks for volunteering this time round Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubsc

Re: http://ant.apache.org/ broken in FF

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > All:  This seems to be happening across the board at apache.org right now. >  Rest assured that infrastructure is aware of it, and I for one am confident > they'll set everything right as usual.  -Matt Yep I noticed it on more than a couple of apache sites so I assumed it was an infra issue

Re: [VOTE] [second attempt] release of ant 1.8.0

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
> this vote cancels and replaces the vote started on Friday. The vote of > Friday is cancelled because of a > bug affecting the junit task which would have suppressed the stack traces of > failing tests. > > The new build incorporates the fix for the junit stack traces issue. > > a candidate for an

Re: [VOTE] release ant 1.8.0RC1

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, [+1] release this build as ant 1.8.0RC1 I've only tested on Ubuntu 9.10 x64 + java6, but it looks ok to me (hope to do Windows7 test when the RC is available) Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For

Re: failing test cases in the build of ant 1.8.0RC1

2010-01-10 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote: > Ant 1.8.0RC1 is not dependent upon weblogic. The only commercial dependency > left is NetRex. > > I read somewhere that we removed the dependencies of ant proper upon > weblogic and starteam, and I removed the corresponding ant-web

Re: failing test cases in the build of ant 1.8.0RC1

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Jackson
oject(BuildFileTest.java:283) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.unix.SymlinkTest.setUp(SymlinkTest.java:58) On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Kevin Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I've taken the tagged 1.8RC1 from svn and built against the jars I > used for 1.7.1 > I get a

Re: failing test cases in the build of ant 1.8.0RC1

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I've taken the tagged 1.8RC1 from svn and built against the jars I used for 1.7.1 I get a few Class Cast errors for example: XMLFragmentTest testNestedText Error weblogic.apache.xerces.parsers.SecurityConfiguration cannot be cast to weblogic.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration

1.8.0RC1

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi I hope to test the code tonight on Ubuntu 9.10 + Windows7 ultimate (VirtualBox version) However I note a temporal anomaly on the website: "January 12, 2010 - Ant 1.8.0RC1 Available" Tempus fugit indeed... Kev - To unsubscr

Re: svn commit: r894136 - /ant/sandbox/antlibs/git/trunk/src/main/org/apache/ant/git/AbstractGitTask.java

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> +                       throw new BuildException("The repository [ "+ >> getGitRepo()+ " ] specified is not recognised"); >> +               } > > A UK spelling of recognised is just going to lead to more bugreps, we need a > phrase that is more locale-neutral fair cop, Any suggested alter

ant-git antlib initial commit

2009-12-24 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I've been toying with git for a little while and I thought it was about time we had some way of connecting ant to git (initially just to pull sources out of a git repository, but in the future to also support push operations too). I've just committed a few hours work into the sandbox/antlibs

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
> I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1). > > (1) What do we want to call the new element that behaves quite a bit >    like a target but has a dependency list that can be extended? - moving-target (very familiar for people working in IT) or - mutable-target ? > >    (a) target-group > >

Re: [VOTE] Accept Groovy-Front Donation

2009-12-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > But before I start doing this: do we want to accept the donation? +1 Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Re: sshexec verbosity

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote: > Hi, > >> this sounds like a good idea. I think we should check this in. It introduces >> a change compared with the last release but this sounds like a good change. >> >> Thoughts ? Committed fix/change i

Re: sshexec verbosity

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > this sounds like a good idea. I think we should check this in. It introduces > a change compared with the last release but this sounds like a good change. > > Thoughts ? As someone who has been grappling with ssh/scp issues over the last few months (although not in a an Ant context), I coul

Re: [VOTE] New committer - Jon Schneider

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin Jackson
> Please vote whether to admit Jon Schneider as an Ant committer for his > contributions to Ivy and IvyDE.  Voting is open for one week.  Remember that > although only PMC votes are binding, anyone may give his opinion. > > [ X ] +1 Welcome! Welcome Jon! Kev ---

Re: Recurring Test Failures WRT Redirector

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > almost every time I run the testsuite at least one of testRedirector13 > or testRedirector14 in either ExecTaskTest.java or apply-test.xml fails > - but it doesn't happen all the time and you can't really predict which > one (or how many) of the four of them may fail or not. > > Smells like

Re: [VOTE] Promote the Compress Antlib

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > As a first step I propose to promote the Antlib from the sandbox to a > proper Antlib. + 1 from me Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Re: What to Do with ?

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
> there is a new task in trunk that doesn't have any > documentation nor tests. > > Do we want to > >   (1) move it out of trunk into a sandbox > >   (2) keep it in trunk and ship 1.8.0 with it (like we previously did >       for or ) > >       (b) but remove it from defaults.properties +1 That

Re: conditional "arg"

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
> I was only wondering if the reason you had not run into this was because > you are an IDE user.  I know tons of developers who don't go far from > their IDE's and have no reason to be involved with command-line usage. > I guess it's up to you whether you consider contemplation of "living in > an

Re: Can we rename the "compress" sandbox Antlib?

2009-07-26 Thread Kevin Jackson
>> I'm happy - compress is a bad name for the js/css compressor that's >> there already -I propose to change it to ant-minify.  As this seems to >> be what these kind of tools are actually called. > > Sounds good. As of a few minutes ago, ant-compress namespace is clear - as this is me running svn

Fwd: ant SSHExec optional task support to shell mode

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, This appeared unexpectedly in my inbox - I can look into apply it as a patch and committing it if people think it's a good idea. Thanks, Kev -- Forwarded message -- From: Lucas Noleto Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:04 PM Subject: ant SSHExec optional task support to shell mod

Re: Can we rename the "compress" sandbox Antlib?

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I'm planning to create an Antlib based on commons-compress that would > provide Ant tasks to create/extract cpio and ar archives as well as > ArchiveFileset subclasses based on them. > > The natural name for the Antlib would be "compress" but that name is > currently taken by the Antlib that

FBuild

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I saw this on reddit and thought it may interest some people on this list: http://git.felix-lang.org/?p=fbuild.git;a=blob;f=docs/introducing-fbuild.markdown;h=fcb8dcdbca49a067ff5cbeefa4b4523bf847bea0;hb=master Kev - To unsub

Re: Giving the improved bzip2 code a second chance?

2009-03-27 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > with Ant 1.7.0 we changed the bzip2 code to make it a lot faster and > reverted the change in 1.7.1 because it was creating corrupt archives. > > Meanwhile the Hadoop folks have been using the 1.7.0 code and claim > they have found and fixed the problem (a single + 1 missing somewhere > IIUC

Re: Need Help in ANT FTP

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > We have ant script running in Unix box. We are trying to copy some of the > files from Windows based ftp server but we are unable to find a suitable > program which will perform this work. > http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html This is the manual page for how to use the FT

Re: Anybody planning to attend ApacheCon in Amsterdam late March?

2009-01-27 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I'm trying to set my priorities for ApacheCon (looks as if I could be > there for a few days). In order to make anything useful out of the > hackathon (apart from having a day for OSS hacking) I'd need anybody > to partner with - so would anybody be there and if so, is there > anything you'

Re: Integration of antunit in junit

2009-01-19 Thread Kevin Jackson
>> I already some code prepared to support this. The adaptation layer : > >> public class CompilePath extends TestCase { > >> public static TestSuite suite() { >> File script = new >> File("src/test/java/net/sourceforge/deco/ant/test-compilepath.xml"); >> return n

Re: svn commit: r730558 - in /ant/sandbox/antlibs/compress/trunk: ./ lib/ src/ src/etc/ src/etc/testcases/ src/main/ src/main/org/ src/main/org/apache/ src/main/org/apache/ant/ src/main/org/apache/ant

2009-01-01 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, Happy new year to all >>> Copyright 2008 The Apache Software Foundation Ok, first 'bug' spotted ;) Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org

Re: How about moving all SCM and EJB tasks into Antlibs?

2008-11-03 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I'd like to move those tasks (see subject) that don't get tested but > released with Ant into separate Antlibs and deprecate them in trunk. > My current candidate list consists of all SCM tasks (including CVS) > and all vendor specific EJB tasks - one Antlib per task (or family of > tasks in

Re: [VOTE] Adopt Java 1.4 as a minimum requirement for core/trunk

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
+1 Simply for ease of testing Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JavFront ProjectHelper

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
> I'm not doing OO stuff, the build file is a Java source. I suppose it would be possible to do the same using JavaScript as the language? All you would need is a dependency on Rhino +BSF or Java6. - It would be interesting to see how hard HelloWorld is (/me puts on huge list of things todo..) >

YUI Compressor Antlib

2008-10-17 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, At work we have a need for this, so I've thrown it together just now (very rough, but it does what it says on the tin). It's using the Yahoo JavaScript and CSS compressor library and the code is licensed under BSD. My company is ok with me donating the antlib to apache, can I put this into t

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > There has been some discussion about dropping support for Java 1.3 in > trunk. One of the aguments against it was that 1.4 doesn't offer > anything new and going from 1.3 to Java5 was too big a step. I'd personally argue that Java5 doesn't really offer very much apart from window dressing,

Re: DirectoryScanner performance

2008-09-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > At the same time memory usage has increased with 1.7.0 and never > decreased after that, in fact the current HEAD uses more memory than > ever before. Something between revisions 687768 and 693846 has bumped > the memory mark without gaining us much in terms of performance, I'll > try to iso

Re: DirectoryScanner performance

2008-09-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
> The tests are not through yet, but one thing was so surprising to me > that I wanted to show it upfront: > > Running the matchall target (of sr/etc/performance/dirscanner.xml): > > Ant 1.6.5 1 min 30 s ~ 19 MB > Ant 1.7.0 3 min 53 s ~ 24 MB > Ant 1.7.1

Re: svn commit: r693071 - in /ant/core/trunk:

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=693071&view=rev >> Log: >> delete broken symbolic links. PR 41285 > > Note there is a certain kind of not-being-BWC in this change. Prior > to the patch if you said > > > > and foo happened to be a symbolic link pointing nowhere, Ant would > not dele

Re: [VOTE] Release AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Six days and two PMC member votes later. > > I'd appreciate it if any other PMC member could take a look at the > proposed beta release. Sorry I haven't had chance to take a look yet :( Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: How to automize Ant

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I have downloaded the cruisecontrol.I have cvs.Can you let me know what > should i do next or can you give me any documentation on it.Please guide me. You're asking setup/config questions about continuous integration on the ant developer list. It's not really an appropriate forum for these

Re: Perforce Sync

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > BUILD FAILED > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/oro/text/perl/Perl5Util This is more of a user list question, but it looks to me like you're missing a dependency for p4sync http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/perforce.html This page explains that you need the oro jar on yo

Bug 36901

2008-07-29 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, After an extended haitus, I finally have more time for working through patches/bugs in bugzilla. Bug 36901[1] involves a patch submission to allow properties to retain their formatting and comments when being written by PropertyFile. Anyone have an opinion on this patch before I commit c

Re: AntUnit 1.1?

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
> ant's trunk has been using a snapshot of AntUnit's trunk for quite > some time now, so we seem to need some unreleased feature. How about > making it available to others as well? Sounds reasonable. Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: State of 1.7.1 release

2008-07-09 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > with Kev, Martijn and myself we have three PMC members vote +1 on the > release. Given that Kev is moving across half of the planet, I'm > finishing the release process for him. Thanks for stepping in Stefan, > So far the release files are in place and the Ant site has been > updated at t

[VOTE] 1.7.1 Release now available for final testing

2008-06-27 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, There is an additional folder at http://people.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.7.1/ This is the src/bin that will become the final 1.7.1 release unless there are any vetos I've done the download + check signature test and it seems fine to me Vote The distribution files on http://people.apa

Re: Issue 45190 and Ant 1.7.1

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin Jackson
> If you feel you'd need a new beta, than I'd vote against including the > patch. I'd be +0 for including it without another beta. > >> (PS sorry about being slow getting 1.7.1 out, > > Just in case I've been misunderstood. When I said that in retrospect > we should have released 1.7.1 earlier I

Re: Issue 45190 and Ant 1.7.1

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, Since there seems to be a bit of a debate on the acceptance of late patches in the beta cycle, we should probably have a vote --- Do you think that a patch which *seems* like a trivial fix and has been accepted into SVN HEAD should be backported/merged into the current 'about to be release

Re: Issue 45190 and Ant 1.7.1

2008-06-17 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Stefan, > I fixed https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45190 with > a rather trivial patch > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=668624 and now the > reporter asks whether this could go into 1.7.1. > > While I understand that he needs the bug fixed, I also wouldn't want

1.7.7 DOMUtilTest fixed

2008-06-08 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I finally got the time to work out what was wrong with the DOMUtilTest failure I should have some time to look into the other failures for 1.7.1 - but this was the only new failure since the last beta release I would like to start the process for the full release since the beta has been avai

Re: Adding magic properties for targets?

2008-05-30 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Colm's patch in > adds two > new magic properties, one for the build's default target and one for > the targets specified on the command line (or via <*ant*>). > > IIRC such properties have been suggested many moons ago and rejected,

1.7.1 + patch => failures

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I'm getting the following failures (Ubuntu Hardy Heron, 1-7-1 trunk, java6): testRedirector13Failure unexpected log content expected:<...ec/exec.xml ERROR!!![]/home/kev/workspace/...> but was:<...ec/exec.xml ERROR!!![error at LeadPipeInputStream.read(): Pipe broken]/home/kev/workspace

Re: Merge 641903 from trunk to 1.7 branch?

2008-04-26 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > The problem showed up as a symptom in Ivy but Ivy isn't the only one > affected by it. I'm all in favor of merging the change regardless. The change to UnknownElement is now merged back into BRANCH_17 I will test on windows/ubuntu at some point this week - then I suppose a further vote

Re: Merge 641903 from trunk to 1.7 branch?

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Note that according to recent discussions on the subject, we will most > likely drop the use of 'id' on the task used to load the settings (which > will probably be 'configure' again, since I seem to be the only one who > don't like using configure where we have make a lot of effort to d

Re: [Vote - release 1.7.1 beta] - results

2008-04-10 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Antoine, > do we not need to do some further checkins in SVN so that the output of ant > -version changes from > > Apache Ant version 1.7.1beta compiled on March 18 2008 > > to > > Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on April xy 2008 ? > > which means creating a new label and new binaries a

[Vote - release 1.7.1 beta] - results

2008-04-09 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, Well after a suitably long time for results to trickle in, the beta of 1.7.1 has +1 : 7 -1 : 0 So I guess it was retroactively deemed to be a release (phew!) Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: Merge 641903 from trunk to 1.7 branch?

2008-04-02 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, Sorry I'm late with this. > IMHO the bug is serious enough to be fixed in 1.7.1 final and should > be merged into the branch. I'm happy to merge this into 1.7.1 and run a 3rd beta cycle (test, push tarballs, vote etc) if it's a show-stopper for many people Kev ---

[Vote] 1.7.1beta2

2008-03-22 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, I've been informed (on the q.t) that I never actually requested a vote before announcing that the ant 1.7.1 beta tarballs were available. So officially at the moment, the tarballs on people.apache.org that I announced are beta-in-potentia :( A retrospective vote on these tarballs has been pr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Ant 1.7.1beta2 public availability

2008-03-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, Ant 1.7.1beta2 is now available for wider public testing! - http://people.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.7.1beta2/ Please see release notes for major changes from ant 1.7.0. Ant 1.7.1 includes some support for Java6 features: - JavaFX scripting support for - secureinput inputhandler (non-echoi

Re: Ant 1.7.1beta available

2008-03-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I see that you have updated the beta (to 2). > http://people.apache.org/~kevj/ant/ant-1.7.1beta2.tar.gz > Peter Yes, in the old beta I had made a mess of some documentation (egrave eacute) and Stefan had noticed that the license files were incorrect - I thought that there were enough cha

Re: Ant 1.7.1beta available

2008-03-17 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier but we seem to be in conflict > with the policies of which license or notice information should go > into which file. > > My current understanding (from hanging out on the ASF's legal mailing > list, not from actually understanding any legalese, muc

Re: [VOTE] Ant 1.7.1 beta

2008-03-13 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > so what? > > If I signed it, then a few signatures would be on my key but for the > majority of users there wouldn't be a trust path from them to my key. > > It is better to have signatures on your key, that's sure (and that is > something we can get arranged even without meeting F2F),

Re: svn commit: r636602 - /ant/core/branches/ANT_17_BRANCH/docs/manual/credits.html

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
> > Sorry, do you know what encoding I should be using to fix > > this problem? > > No, sorry. I dont see any encoding in my HEAD version (the old one). > In XML I use usually ISO-8859-1 > As this is HTML we could use the named entities? HTML is designed for viewed > by humans by its rendered

Re: svn commit: r636602 - /ant/core/branches/ANT_17_BRANCH/docs/manual/credits.html

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
> > --- ant/core/branches/ANT_17_BRANCH/docs/manual/credits.html (original) > > +++ ant/core/branches/ANT_17_BRANCH/docs/manual/credits.html > > > - Antoine Lévy-Lambert > > + Antoine L�vy-Lambert > > > - Jan Matèrne > > + Jan Mat�rne Damn! Sorry, do you know what encoding I should

Ant 1.7.1beta available

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, I've uploaded a signed complete distribution of 1.7.1beta to: http://people.apache.org/~kevj/ant/ant-1.7.1beta.tar.gz It weighs in at ~50mb NB. I'm now up to #10 in the ReleaseInstructions, 11 seems easy enough, but " 12. Once this is uploaded, unpack things, create the release director

Re: [VOTE] Ant 1.7.1 beta

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Any reason why you can't create a key for yourself? My key isn't counter-signed so anything I sign will be 'untrusted' :( Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[VOTE] Ant 1.7.1 beta

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, I think it's time to go ahead and push out 1.7.1 for wider testing. I really *don't* want to add any changes to code at the moment, but if there are any documentation issues that someone notices I'm willing to let them in on a case by case basis Over to the vote: Despite the strange bug

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