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

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

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