Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 11286 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 13308 invoked by uid 97); 22 Oct 2002 18:13:14 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 13285 invoked by uid 97); 22 Oct 2002 18:13:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 13266 invoked by uid 98); 22 Oct 2002 18:13:13 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Costin Manolache Subject: Re: needs-*.jar? Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:09:02 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.84.39.162 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035310272 6922 64.84.39.162 (22 Oct 2002 18:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:11:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Sender: news X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Steve Cohen wrote: > >> What version did this start with? > > Some time last week in CVS HEAD. > >> Is there some documentation on this change? > > Errm, no. It's still experimental. > >> What are the expected benefits? > > Getting around > more > easily, ease migration to ant-libs of some sort (we could start > releasing the needs-* jars separately, if we wanted to). I have one small request - can we rename them to ant-XXX.jar ? I think it is an excelent idea - and hopefull it'll be used in other projects with external dependencies. > Discussion has happened months ago but no real resolution had been > reached. As we are nowehere near a new release, I thought it would be > good to give it a try. Sometimes things move faster if somebody > starts pushing, you know. ;-) -- Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: