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  198. <h3>June 27, 2008 - Ant 1.7.1 Available</h3>
  199. <p>Apache Ant 1.7.1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  200. <p> Ant 1.7.1 is mainly a bugfix release.</p>
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  205. Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!
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  207. <h3>October 11, 2007 - Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!</h3>
  208. <p>Apache Ivy, "A Java based tool for tracking, resolving and
  209. managing project dependencies.", just finished <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Incubation</a> and has joined
  210. the Ant project. More information will be available from the Ant
  211. site soon.</p>
  212. <p>Until we've finished the migration, you can learn more about
  213. Ivy from its <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/">Incubator
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  216. <a name="Ant 1.7.0"></a>
  217. Ant 1.7.0
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  219. <h3>December 19, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0 Available</h3>
  220. <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  221. <p>Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant
  222. tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file
  223. system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ...
  224. Resource collections group resources, and can be further
  225. combined with operators such as union and intersection. This
  226. can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
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  228. Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs.
  229. The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
  230. Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
  231. be released shortly.
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  233. <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
  234. <p>Ant 1.7 has some initial support for Java6 features.</p>
  235. <h3 class="section">
  236. <a name="AntUnit 1.0"></a>
  237. AntUnit 1.0
  238. </h3>
  239. <h3>January 8, 2007 - Apache AntUnit 1.0 Available</h3>
  240. <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  241. <p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
  242. instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
  243. <h3 class="section">
  244. <a name=".NET Ant Library 1.0"></a>
  245. .NET Ant Library 1.0
  246. </h3>
  247. <h3>November 6, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 Available</h3>
  248. <p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  249. <p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well
  250. as the "old .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested
  251. Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
  252. <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's
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  254. <h3 class="section">
  255. <a name="Apache Ant"></a>
  256. Apache Ant
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  258. <p>
  259. Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
  260. Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
  261. </p>
  262. <p>
  263. Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
  264. <em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and
  265. others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author
  266. couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like
  267. tools are inherently shell-based -- they evaluate a set of dependencies, then
  268. execute commands not unlike what you would issue in a shell. This means that you
  269. can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that
  270. you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS,
  271. or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on.
  272. </p>
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  274. Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
  275. time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing
  276. because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of
  277. Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
  278. still have yet another format to use and remember.
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  281. Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
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  289. able to construct a shell command such as
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  291. gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere.
  292. And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an
  293. <code>&lt;exec&gt;</code> task that
  294. allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing
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