RE: Ant2

>Costin >P.S. I can volunteer to write the Makefiles, since soon this may be the >cleanest way to build tomcat... I hope it's a joke ?) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Ant2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe I'm crazy, but so far I did a lot of the build.xml changes every > time a new ant was released, with all the pain of trying (without > success ) to make it work with the old version and the new one. Maybe we should somehow motivate Ant people to write a convers

Re: Ant2

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Josh Nylander wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:43:25 -0800 > From: Josh Nylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant2 > > I know little of ant and probably

Re: Ant2

I know little of ant and probably less about this particular issue but I thought XSL Stylesheets were supposed to make it relatively painless to go between different XML files. Take you build.xml and pase it throught the approriate XSL Stylesheet for the build.xml file and the ant version. Ju

Re: Ant2

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Remy Maucherat wrote: > > > If we don't like Ant 2, why would we have to use it ? If it introduces big > > changes in build.xml, why upgrade when Ant 1 works fine ? > > Sooner or later ant2 will be released and people will start using it in > some projects - we can stick wit

Re: Ant2

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Sam Ruby wrote: > > I'll try. The attribute deprecation between 1.3 and 1.4 was IMHO completey > > unjustified, and if 1.5 does the same we'll have the same problem once > > again. > > There is no need to try. I daily build the latest Tomcat 3 against the > latest Ant... if

Re: Ant2

Costin Manolache wrote: > >> 1.5 deprecates more attrbutes, BTW (don't know if you tried building Tomcat >> with it). > > I'll try. The attribute deprecation between 1.3 and 1.4 was IMHO completey > unjustified, and if 1.5 does the same we'll have the same problem once > again. There is no need t

Re: Ant2

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Remy Maucherat wrote: > > Maybe I'm crazy, but so far I did a lot of the build.xml changes every > > time a new ant was released, with all the pain of trying (without > > 1.5 deprecates more attrbutes, BTW (don't know if you tried building Tomcat > with it). I'll try. The at

Re: Ant2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if you follow ant-dev, but there are some discussions about > the new version of ant which are extremely scarry for me. > > Things like throwing exceptions when a property is not defined, > changing the build.xml syntax, and so on. > >

Re: Ant2

> I don't know if you follow ant-dev, Nope. > but there are some discussions about > the new version of ant which are extremely scarry for me. > > Things like throwing exceptions when a property is not defined, > changing the build.xml syntax, and so on. > > Maybe I'm crazy, but so far I did a l