Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Jesse Glick
Stefan Bodewig wrote: Say there is a method void doSomething(Object o); in a class inside the Java class library of JDK 1.3 and a new overload void doSomething(String s); was added in JDK 1.4. Any call to doSomething() compiled on JDK 1.4 and above will pick the String signature

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Jesse Glick
Kev Jackson wrote: I can build all the ant-* jars except ant-starteam and ant-weblogic I've contacted borland regarding getting access to starteam sdk without having to sign up to some ridiculous trial/download nonsense. [...] Note that we could set up separate source roots containing phony

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-10 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Jesse Glick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Bodewig wrote: Java 5 adds a completely new sort of problems with APIs retrofitted to support generics. Since Comparable is now ComparableT the BigInteger class used to have a method int compareTo(Object) and now has a int

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-04 Thread Steve Loughran
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? I'm tempted to do it but can't as I am three chapters out from finishing the text of the book, then its all the

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-04 Thread Kev Jackson
On 5 Jun 2006, at 03:08, Steve Loughran wrote: Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? I'm tempted to do it but can't as I am three chapters out from

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Conor MacNeill
Kev Jackson wrote: On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? I'd be happy to help, but before I offer myself as the 'release

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Kev Jackson
A quick update regarding my situation trying to build a test release dist. I can now bootstrap everything except starteam and weblogic. I'm also having a strange issue with Echo not compiling in eclipse (but works fine from command line). ie, I can build all the ant-* jars except

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hi, I am going to make these jars available to Kevin. Regards, Antoine Kev Jackson wrote: A quick update regarding my situation trying to build a test release dist. I can now bootstrap everything except starteam and weblogic. I'm also having a strange issue with Echo not compiling in

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Dominique Devienne
We simply can't. Leaving the generics/erasure problem aside, there is a way to ensure you don't compile against methods that are too new, but it is painful: start building with JDK 1.2, compile what hasn't been compiled by building with JDK 1.3, repeat with JDK 1.4 and 1.5. What about

Re: Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-02 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
, Antoine Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:22:43 -0500 Von: Dominique Devienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Ant Developers List dev@ant.apache.org Betreff: Re: Ant 1.7 release We simply can't. Leaving the generics/erasure problem aside, there is a way to ensure you

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Kev Jackson wrote: On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? I'd be happy to help, but before I offer myself as the 'release

AW: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Jan.Materne
Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one go and still produce jars which can run under 1.2. Should be possible (but I would do a test after the build...) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html -target version Generate class files that will work on

Re: AW: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:36:11 +0200 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: dev@ant.apache.org Betreff: AW: Ant 1.7 release Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one go and still produce jars which can run under 1.2. Should be possible

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
Hi all, I'm not confirming yet to be release manager, but I'm preparing a build environment with all libs etc - so I'm edging my hat into the ring you need the libs for all the optional tasks described in the section installing ant of the manual. I have all the latest libs as described

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jan Materne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if we can build Ant 1.7 under JDK 1.5 also all in one go and still produce jars which can run under 1.2. Should be possible (but I would do a test after the build...)

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the opposite is also true This leaves us in a pickle unless we can guarantee that the every line of code will

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Kev Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the opposite is also true This leaves us in a pickle

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-06-01 Thread Kev Jackson
On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:37, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Kev Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Jun 2006, at 11:16, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Object signature alternative. It is impossible to compile code on JDK 1.5 that uses the method and still works on JDK 1.4 - but the

Ant 1.7 release

2006-05-31 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? Regards, Antoine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Ant 1.7 release

2006-05-31 Thread Kev Jackson
On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:02, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I am having a look at http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning We are still on the step finding a release manager Do we have any candidates ? I'd be happy to help, but before I offer myself as the 'release manager', what would I