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| @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ | |||
| <meta name="author" content="Stefan Bodewig"> | |||
| <meta name="email" content="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de"> | |||
| <meta name="author" content="Magesh Umasankar"> | |||
| <meta name="email" content=""> | |||
| <meta name="author" content="Antoine Levy-Lambert"> | |||
| <meta name="email" content=""> | |||
| </head> | |||
| @@ -174,23 +176,18 @@ | |||
| <div class="content"> | |||
| <h1 class="title">News</h1> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.6beta3"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.6beta3 | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.6.0 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>December 5, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta3 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As | |||
| <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As | |||
| we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release | |||
| requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p> | |||
| <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report | |||
| any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make | |||
| the final release of Ant 1.6.</p> | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that | |||
| makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks. | |||
| For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release | |||
| notes.</p> | |||
| <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line | |||
| <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p> | |||
| <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you | |||
| did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p> | |||
| @@ -199,8 +196,8 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| Ant 1.5.4 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the | |||
| <code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the | |||
| @@ -208,8 +205,8 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p> | |||
| <div class="warning"> | |||
| <div class="label">Note</div> | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or | |||
| later. | |||
| </div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| @@ -262,41 +259,18 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| Ant 1.5.3 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. | |||
| Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues | |||
| please raise a bug on | |||
| <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a> | |||
| or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5.2 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the dev and user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5.2Beta1 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for | |||
| download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/"> | |||
| http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>. | |||
| If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the dev and user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a> | |||
| @@ -316,19 +290,10 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| Ant 1.5.1 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi"> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant"> | |||
| download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5.1Beta1 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5"></a> | |||
| @@ -342,33 +307,6 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5/"> | |||
| download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5Beta3"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5Beta3 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5Beta2"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5Beta2 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5Beta1"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5Beta1 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant wins again!"></a> | |||
| @@ -424,65 +362,11 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| download area</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design"></a> | |||
| Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now | |||
| available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not | |||
| complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should | |||
| give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p> | |||
| <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code | |||
| and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that | |||
| can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and | |||
| discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a> | |||
| Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their | |||
| Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements"></a> | |||
| Ant 2.0 Requirements | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it | |||
| was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there | |||
| are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to | |||
| be addressed. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will | |||
| encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including: | |||
| </p> | |||
| <ul> | |||
| <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li> | |||
| <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li> | |||
| <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li> | |||
| <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li> | |||
| <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li> | |||
| </ul> | |||
| <p> | |||
| It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to | |||
| make this the last time that will happen. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the | |||
| Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The | |||
| requirements are being collected into a document which is available | |||
| <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted | |||
| until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed | |||
| for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are | |||
| available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be | |||
| relevant to Ant 2.0. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the | |||
| <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute | |||
| your ideas. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| @@ -529,6 +529,16 @@ | |||
| valign="top" align="left"> | |||
| 12 August 2003 | |||
| </td> | |||
| </tr> | |||
| <tr> | |||
| <td colspan="1" rowspan="1" | |||
| valign="top" align="left"> | |||
| 1.6.0 | |||
| </td> | |||
| <td colspan="1" rowspan="1" | |||
| valign="top" align="left"> | |||
| 18 December 2003 | |||
| </td> | |||
| </tr> | |||
| </table> | |||
| <p class="faq"> | |||
| @@ -172,40 +172,21 @@ | |||
| <div class="content"> | |||
| <h1 class="title">Welcome</h1> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.6beta3"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.6beta3 | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.6.0 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As | |||
| we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release | |||
| requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p> | |||
| <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report | |||
| any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make | |||
| the final release of Ant 1.6.</p> | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that | |||
| makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks. | |||
| For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release | |||
| notes.</p> | |||
| <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line | |||
| <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p> | |||
| <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you | |||
| did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Ant 1.5.4"></a> | |||
| Ant 1.5.4 | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <div class="warning"> | |||
| <div class="label">Note</div> | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or | |||
| later | |||
| </div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| <h3 class="section"> | |||
| <a name="Apache Ant"></a> | |||
| Apache Ant | |||
| </h3> | |||
| @@ -253,7 +234,7 @@ on. | |||
| Documentation | |||
| </h3> | |||
| <p> | |||
| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.5.4) | |||
| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.6.0) | |||
| <a href="manual/index.html">online</a> | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| @@ -5,30 +5,24 @@ | |||
| <author email="">Conor MacNeill</author> | |||
| <author email="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de">Stefan Bodewig</author> | |||
| <author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author> | |||
| <author email="">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author> | |||
| <title>News</title> | |||
| </properties> | |||
| <body> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.6beta3"> | |||
| <h3>December 5, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta3 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a | |||
| href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.6.0"> | |||
| <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a | |||
| href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As | |||
| we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release | |||
| requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p> | |||
| <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report | |||
| any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make | |||
| the final release of Ant 1.6.</p> | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that | |||
| makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks. | |||
| For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release | |||
| notes.</p> | |||
| <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line | |||
| <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p> | |||
| <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you | |||
| did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p> | |||
| @@ -37,8 +31,8 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.4"> | |||
| <h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the | |||
| @@ -48,8 +42,8 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <div class="warning"> | |||
| <div class="label">Note</div> | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or | |||
| later. | |||
| </div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| @@ -103,43 +97,21 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.3"> | |||
| <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"> | |||
| <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. | |||
| Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues | |||
| please raise a bug on | |||
| <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a> | |||
| or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.2"> | |||
| <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant">download</a>. | |||
| If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the dev and user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1"> | |||
| <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for | |||
| download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/"> | |||
| http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>. | |||
| If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the dev and user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant Top Level Project"> | |||
| <h3>November 18, 2002</h3> | |||
| <p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a> | |||
| @@ -154,21 +126,13 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.1"> | |||
| <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi"> | |||
| <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for | |||
| <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant"> | |||
| download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1"> | |||
| <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5"> | |||
| <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3> | |||
| <p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new | |||
| @@ -183,30 +147,6 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5Beta3"> | |||
| <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5Beta2"> | |||
| <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3> | |||
| <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5Beta1"> | |||
| <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3> | |||
| <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for | |||
| download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the | |||
| discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant wins again!"> | |||
| <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right"/></a> | |||
| <h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's | |||
| @@ -257,68 +197,12 @@ did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design"> | |||
| <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now | |||
| available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not | |||
| complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should | |||
| give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p> | |||
| <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code | |||
| and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that | |||
| can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and | |||
| discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"> | |||
| <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their | |||
| Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a | |||
| href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements"> | |||
| <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it | |||
| was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there | |||
| are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to | |||
| be addressed. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will | |||
| encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including: | |||
| </p> | |||
| <ul> | |||
| <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li> | |||
| <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li> | |||
| <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li> | |||
| <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li> | |||
| <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li> | |||
| </ul> | |||
| <p> | |||
| It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to | |||
| make this the last time that will happen. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the | |||
| Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The | |||
| requirements are being collected into a document which is available | |||
| <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted | |||
| until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed | |||
| for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are | |||
| available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be | |||
| relevant to Ant 2.0. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <p> | |||
| If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the | |||
| <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute | |||
| your ideas. | |||
| </p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| </body> | |||
| </document> | |||
| @@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ | |||
| <td>1.5.4</td> | |||
| <td>12 August 2003</td> | |||
| </tr> | |||
| <tr> | |||
| <td>1.6.0</td> | |||
| <td>18 December 2003</td> | |||
| </tr> | |||
| </table> | |||
| </answer> | |||
| </faq> | |||
| @@ -9,46 +9,24 @@ | |||
| <body> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.6beta3"> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta3 is now available for <a | |||
| href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/">download</a>. As | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.6.0"> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is now available for <a | |||
| href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As | |||
| we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release | |||
| requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p> | |||
| <p>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report | |||
| any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make | |||
| the final release of Ant 1.6.</p> | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support | |||
| for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that | |||
| makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks. | |||
| For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release | |||
| notes.</p> | |||
| <p>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line | |||
| <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</p> | |||
| <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you | |||
| did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the | |||
| <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Ant 1.5.4"> | |||
| <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is now available for | |||
| <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <div class="warning"> | |||
| <div class="label">Note</div> | |||
| <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 will be the last release that supports | |||
| JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or | |||
| later | |||
| </div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| </section> | |||
| <section name="Apache Ant"> | |||
| <p> | |||
| @@ -100,7 +78,7 @@ on. | |||
| <section name="Documentation"> | |||
| <p> | |||
| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.5.4) | |||
| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.6.0) | |||
| <a href="manual/index.html">online</a> | |||
| </p> | |||