Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 40207 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2004 13:48:11 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Feb 2004 13:48:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 75268 invoked by uid 500); 18 Feb 2004 13:48:05 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 75233 invoked by uid 500); 18 Feb 2004 13:48:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.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 dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 75218 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2004 13:48:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dnsinet.rzf-nrw.de) (193.109.238.66) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Feb 2004 13:48:04 -0000 Received: from z011104.bk.fin.local (z011104.bk.fin.local [193.109.238.140]) by dnsinet.rzf-nrw.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1IDm1MC024797 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:48:01 +0100 Received: by z011104.bk.fin.local with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <102B4L53>; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:47:51 +0100 Message-ID: <879A5AD5DD0ED511891F0003473A9B560E23ED6F@Z011004> From: Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de To: dev@ant.apache.org Subject: RE: Ant 1.7 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:48:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3F625.D38C3570" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3F625.D38C3570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > And we must take our time to design more general APIs. The best thing = > would be to do it in a sandbox with a big shield on the=20 > sandbox "Warning=20 > - works here - no backward compatibility guaranteed" so that the guys = > developing there can experiment freely different designs. Maybe I=B4ve forgotten the result of the vote ... But if we start such big chance in the API, maybe start at subversion. So we can collect some experience with that. If the new API is fixed, = we=20 can decide to port the changes from svn (instead from sandbox) to cvs, or port the cvs code to svn. Jan ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3F625.D38C3570--