> you know, this summer will mark the two year point since Ant 1,6.0
> shipped. Which means time for Ant1.7 is nearing.
>
> What do people think is a good release schedule/timetable?
>
> Or to put it differently, what do people want in *and stable*
> before then?
>
> Things I must have:
>
> - <libraries> with security & docs.
>
> - WAR/EAR <lib> option to flatten libraries pulled in. Makes
> it trivial
> to embed <libraries> defined stuff.
>
> Things i'd like
>
> - a way of embedding files into <propertyset>, so you can do
> file-based
> loading from inside anything that takes a property file. Or some easy
> way of going <propertyfile file="foo" required="true" /> into Java
> tasks. I wrote my own element for this for the smartfrog
> tasks, and it
> was v. useful. But being LGPL I can't paste it back in :(
>
> - a way of embedding <libraries> inside a <classpath> declaration.
>
> <java classname="org.apache.axis.monitor.TCPMon" >
> <classpath>
> <libraries >
> <library project="ws-axis" artifact="axis" version="1.2" />
> </libraries>
> </classpath>
> </java>
>
> - <setproxy> to take a file of proxy settings; if file is absent do
> nothing, if present read in the props (merging in ant properties) and
> then set properties from there.
>
> - local properties in macros.
>
> - various contributed patches that have been on bugzilla for
> a while and
> look useful.
>
>
> -http tasks in sandbox to become an antlib.
>
> Should we be organised, build up a list of features and then either
> start doing them or scrub them from the list?
>
> -steve
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org
>
|