- Changes from Ant 1.1 to the current sources
-
- Changes that could break older environments:
- --------------------------------------------
-
- * Semantics of <property> has changed again in the hope to be more
- intuitive. ${} expansion now happens at runtime and <property> tags
- living inside of targets only take effect if they are visited at
- runtime.
-
- As a side effect of this change, task's attributes get set at runtime
- not at parser time as well, which might change the results of
- <script>s or other custom tasks that reference other tasks by their id
- attribute.
-
- * copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as
- the filtering attribute.
-
- * the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed.
-
- * the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed.
-
- * the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed.
-
- * Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from
- org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types.
-
- * the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef>
- have been removed.
-
- * the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed.
-
- * <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes.
-
- * <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes.
-
- * the Unix antRun script would search for command.sh in the directory
- it changed to and invoke this instead of command if present. This
- behavior has been dropped.
-
- * <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly
-
- * build.compiler supports now jvc as well.
-
- Other changes:
- --------------
-
- * New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink,
- junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate, native2ascii.
-
- * New tasks mparse pending documentation.
-
- * <java> uses ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is
- specified.
-
- * <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess
- all files if the stylesheet changes.
-
- * New data types fileset and patternset - expected to get a broader use.
- They as well as PATH like structures can now be defined on a global
- level and later be referenced by their id attribute.
-
- * You can specify environment variables to <exec>.
-
- * <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local
- copy before it starts a download (HTTP only).
-
- * Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be
- specified on the command line.
-
- * Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments
- on log output.
-
- * <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets.
-
- * <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries.
-
- * <ejbc> optional task no longer uses a separate VM to invoke the ejbc tool.
-
- * project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option.
-
- * Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful)
-
- * Ant will now search for a file named build.xml in the parent directory
- and above (towards the root of the filesystem) if you didn't specify
- -buildfile and there is no build.xml in the current directory.
-
- Fixed bugs:
- -----------
-
- * <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task.
-
- * Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with
- respect to the Project's basedir.
-
- * Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all
- cases.
-
- * Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException.
-
- * Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails.
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