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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:36:35 -0800
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com>
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Subject: Re: Removal of deprecated tasks
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Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> Conor MacNeill <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I am planning the removal of the tasks which were deprecated in ant
> > 1.2 such as deltree, copydir, etc.
>
> I was more or less thinking about keeping them even in Ant 1.3 (and
> deprecate some other things on the way as well) and remove them when
> switching to Ant2 - that way we wouldn't break 1.2 buildfiles with 1.3.
>
> This is not a -1, more a +0 or something.
>

I'm not an Ant developer (just a user when building Tomcat) so my vote
doesn't really mean anything ... but please do not do this!

We already know that 2.0 will likely (hah -- assume it's an ironclad
certainty :-) break existing build files.  Given that, would it be such
a
tremendous problem to let current build files work through the 1.x
family?
That way, we will only have one more MUST change instead of two.


> Stefan

Craig McClanahan