Hi,
Perhaps a long overdue stupid question time, but why are we spending lots of effort altering
Ant installations , altering bash files and bat scripts, altering jar files etc. Lots of pain
in making it compatible with multiple windows versions etc….
Looking at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693 <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693> and I’ve checked
the other revisions noted in upgrading Ant etc.
But, before embarking on a mission, thought I would ask the simple question, why are we
packaging Ant? Why not let developers install a (compatible) version of Ant themselves ?
Would be an awful lot easier for us to not have to maintain and upgrade a packaged Ant, and
especially at release time.
But I guess Im missing something obvious as to why this needs to be.
In reference to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246>
Thanks
Gav…
Perhaps a long overdue stupid question time, but why are we spending lots of effort altering
Ant installations , altering bash files and bat scripts, altering jar files etc. Lots of pain
in making it compatible with multiple windows versions etc….
Looking at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693 <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=700693> and I’ve checked
the other revisions noted in upgrading Ant etc.
But, before embarking on a mission, thought I would ask the simple question, why are we
packaging Ant? Why not let developers install a (compatible) version of Ant themselves ?
Would be an awful lot easier for us to not have to maintain and upgrade a packaged Ant, and
especially at release time.
But I guess Im missing something obvious as to why this needs to be.
In reference to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1246>
Thanks
Gav…