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  29. <p><strong>Ant</strong></p>
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  84. <a name="Ant 1.4.1"><strong>Ant 1.4.1</strong></a>
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  88. <blockquote>
  89. <h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
  90. <p>Please visit the
  91. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/release/v1.4.1/">
  92. download area</a>.
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  100. <a name="Ant 1.4"><strong>Ant 1.4</strong></a>
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  104. <blockquote>
  105. <h3>3 September 2001 Ant 1.4 released !</h3>
  106. <p>Please visit the
  107. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/release/v1.4/">
  108. download area</a>.
  109. </p>
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  116. <a name="Ant 1.4 Beta"><strong>Ant 1.4 Beta</strong></a>
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  120. <blockquote>
  121. <h3>Ant 1.4 Beta Available !</h3>
  122. <p>The beta version of Ant 1.4 is now available for
  123. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/release/v1.4Beta2/">
  124. download</a>. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  125. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
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  133. <a name="Ant Needs a Logo"><strong>Ant Needs a Logo</strong></a>
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  137. <blockquote>
  138. <p>Ant still doesn't have a Logo, but it sure deserves one. We've
  139. put together a <a href="logos.html">page with proposed
  140. logos</a>, please take a look at them and tell us what you
  141. think. If you have a nice logo idea yourself, just submit it to
  142. the mailing lists.</p>
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  148. <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
  149. <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design"><strong>Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design</strong></a>
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  153. <blockquote>
  154. <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
  155. available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
  156. complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
  157. give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
  158. <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
  159. and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
  160. can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
  161. discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
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  168. <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"><strong>Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder</strong></a>
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  172. <blockquote>
  173. <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
  174. Dot-Com Builder site on May302001. See <a href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
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  181. <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements"><strong>Ant 2.0 Requirements</strong></a>
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  185. <blockquote>
  186. <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
  187. was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
  188. are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
  189. be addressed.
  190. </p>
  191. <p>
  192. As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
  193. encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
  194. <ul>
  195. <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
  196. <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
  197. <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
  198. <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
  199. <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
  200. </ul>
  201. It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
  202. make this the last time that will happen.
  203. </p>
  204. <p>
  205. To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the
  206. Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The
  207. requirements are being collected into a document which is available
  208. <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
  209. until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
  210. for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
  211. </p>
  212. <p>
  213. For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
  214. available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
  215. relevant to Ant 2.0.
  216. </p>
  217. <p>
  218. If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
  219. <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
  220. your ideas.
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  228. <a name="Ant 1.3 Released"><strong>Ant 1.3 Released</strong></a>
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  232. <blockquote>
  233. <p>
  234. Ant 1.3 has been released after going through three betas. Thanks to everyone who
  235. took the time to test the beta and report bugs and enhancements.
  236. </p>
  237. <p>You can download the release from
  238. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/">here</a>.
  239. Both source and binary releases are available in zip, tarball and RPM formats.
  240. </p>
  241. <p>Please report all bugs using the
  242. <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">Apache Bugzilla</a>
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