preparation for beta release

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@437449 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

WHATSNEW

@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
-Changes from current Ant 1.6.5 version to current SVN version
+Changes from current Ant 1.7.0Beta1 version to current SVN version
 =============================================================
 
 Changes that could break older environments:
 -------------------------------------------
 
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+Changes from Ant 1.6.5 to Ant 1.7.0Beta1
+========================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
 * Removed support for xalan1 completely. Users of Xalan1 for Ant builds will
   have to stay at ant 1.6.5 or upgrade to xalan2.
 

build.xml

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
   -->
   <property name="Name" value="Apache Ant"/>
   <property name="name" value="ant"/>
-  <property name="version" value="1.7alpha"/>
-  <property name="manifest-version" value="1.7"/>
+  <property name="version" value="1.7.0Beta1"/>
+  <property name="manifest-version" value="1.7.0"/>
   <property name="bootstrap.jar" value="ant-bootstrap.jar"/>
 
   <property name="ant.package" value="org/apache/tools/ant"/>

docs/antnews.html

@@ -174,6 +174,28 @@
   <div class="content">
     <h1 class="title">News</h1>
             <h3 class="section">
+      <a name="Ant 1.7.0Beta1"></a>
+      Ant 1.7.0Beta1
+    </h3>
+                        <h3>August 27, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0Beta1 Available</h3>
+                                <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
+                                <p>This the first beta of the new major release 1.7 .</p>
+                                <p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant 
+    tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file 
+    system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... 
+    Resource collections group resources, and can be further 
+    combined with operators such as union and intersection. This 
+    can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
+                                <p>
+    Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. 
+    The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
+    Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
+    be released shortly. 
+    </p>
+                                <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
+                                <p>Ant 1.7 has no support for Java6 features, but first tests on Java6 
+    did not fail.</p>
+                        <h3 class="section">
       <a name="Ant 1.6.5"></a>
       Ant 1.6.5
     </h3>

docs/bindownload.html

@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ project</a> provides RPMs at their own distribution site.</p>
 the <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/">master distribution
 directory</a> or, preferably, its <a href="[preferred]/ant/">mirror</a>.</p>
                         <h3 class="section">
+      <a name="Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1"></a>
+      Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1
+    </h3>
+                        <p>Beta releases are not mirrored, you can find our latest beta
+release at <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/</a>.</p>
+                        <h3 class="section">
       <a name="Mirror"></a>
       Mirror
     </h3>

docs/index.html

@@ -170,6 +170,27 @@
   <div class="content">
     <h1 class="title">Welcome</h1>
             <h3 class="section">
+      <a name="Ant 1.7.0Beta1"></a>
+      Ant 1.7.0Beta1
+    </h3>
+                        <h3>August 27, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0Beta1 Available</h3>
+                                <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
+                                <p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant 
+    tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file 
+    system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... 
+    Resource collections group resources, and can be further 
+    combined with operators such as union and intersection. This 
+    can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
+                                <p>
+    Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. 
+    The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
+    Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
+    be released shortly. 
+    </p>
+                                <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
+                                <p>Ant 1.7 has no support for Java6 features, but first tests on Java6 
+    did not fail.</p>
+                        <h3 class="section">
       <a name="Ant 1.6.5"></a>
       Ant 1.6.5
     </h3>

docs/manual/cover.html

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/style.css">
-<title>Apache Ant 1.7 User Manual</title>
+<title>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 User Manual</title>
 </head>
 
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 <div align="center"> 
   <h1><img src="../images/ant_logo_large.gif" width="190" height="120"></h1>
-  <h1>Apache Ant 1.7 Manual</h1>
-  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.7alpha of 
+  <h1>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 Manual</h1>
+  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.7.0Beta1 of 
   <a target="_top" href="http://ant.apache.org/index.html">Apache Ant</a>. 
     If your version 
     of Ant (as verified with <tt>ant -version</tt>) is older or newer than this 

docs/manual/credits.html

@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
 </ul>
 
 <center>
-<p>Version: 1.7alpha</p>
+<p>Version: 1.7.0Beta1</p>
 </center>
 <hr>
-<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
+<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2000-2006 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>
 
 </body>

docs/projects.html

@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@
         <a name="Antigen"></a>
         Antigen
       </h4>
-                        <p>Antigen (Ant Installer Generator) is a tool to take an Ant build script, combine it with a GUI and wrap it up as an executable jar file. Its main
-            use is for creating graphical, ant-based installers.</p>
+                        <p>Antigen (Ant Installer Generator) is a tool to take an Ant build script, combine it with a GUI 
+        and wrap it up as an executable jar file. Its main use is for creating graphical, ant-based installers.</p>
                                       <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
               <tr>
                       <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
@@ -1066,10 +1066,10 @@
         <a name="WebTest"></a>
         WebTest
       </h4>
-                        <p>WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications. 
-		It is a set of powerful Ant tasks allowing to call web pages, mimic user actions 
-               (clicking links, filling forms, ...) and verify the results. 
-		The generated reports give comprehensive information on success and failure of the test steps.</p>
+                        <p>WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications.
+        It is a set of powerful Ant tasks allowing to call web pages, mimic user actions
+        (clicking links, filling forms, ...) and verify the results.
+        The generated reports give comprehensive information on success and failure of the test steps.</p>
                                       <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
               <tr>
                       <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"

docs/srcdownload.html

@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ Thus they must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of
 the <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/">master distribution
 directory</a> or, preferably, its <a href="[preferred]/ant/">mirror</a>.</p>
                         <h3 class="section">
+      <a name="Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1"></a>
+      Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1
+    </h3>
+                        <p>Beta releases are not mirrored, you can find our latest beta
+release at <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/</a>.</p>
+                        <h3 class="section">
       <a name="Mirror"></a>
       Mirror
     </h3>

xdocs/antnews.xml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!--
-   Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+   Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,6 +25,32 @@
   </properties>
 
 <body>
+  <section name="Ant 1.7.0Beta1">
+    <h3>August 27, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0Beta1 Available</h3>
+    <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 is now available for <a
+    href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
+    <p>This the first beta of the new major release 1.7 .</p>
+
+    <p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant 
+    tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file 
+    system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... 
+    Resource collections group resources, and can be further 
+    combined with operators such as union and intersection. This 
+    can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
+
+    <p>
+    Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. 
+    The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
+    Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
+    be released shortly. 
+    </p>
+
+    <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
+
+    <p>Ant 1.7 has no support for Java6 features, but first tests on Java6 
+    did not fail.</p>
+  </section>
+
   <section name="Ant 1.6.5">
     <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
     <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a

xdocs/bindownload.xml

@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ directory</a> or, preferably, its <a href="[preferred]/ant/">mirror</a>.</p>
 
 </section>
 
+<section name="Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1">
+
+<p>Beta releases are not mirrored, you can find our latest beta
+release at <a
+href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/</a>.</p>
+
+</section>
+
 <section name="Mirror">
 
 <p>You are currently using <b>[preferred]</b>.  If you encounter a

xdocs/index.xml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!--
-   Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+   Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -23,7 +23,33 @@
   </properties>
 
 <body>
-  <section name="Ant 1.6.5">
+   <section name="Ant 1.7.0Beta1">
+    <h3>August 27, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0Beta1 Available</h3>
+    <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0Beta1 is now available for <a
+    href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
+
+    <p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant 
+    tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file 
+    system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... 
+    Resource collections group resources, and can be further 
+    combined with operators such as union and intersection. This 
+    can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
+
+    <p>
+    Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. 
+    The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
+    Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
+    be released shortly. 
+    </p>
+
+    <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
+
+    <p>Ant 1.7 has no support for Java6 features, but first tests on Java6 
+    did not fail.</p>
+  </section>
+
+
+   <section name="Ant 1.6.5">
     <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
     <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a
     href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>

xdocs/srcdownload.xml

@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ directory</a> or, preferably, its <a href="[preferred]/ant/">mirror</a>.</p>
 
 </section>
 
+<section name="Downloading Ant 1.7.0Beta1">
+
+<p>Beta releases are not mirrored, you can find our latest beta
+release at <a
+href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/</a>.</p>
+
+</section>
+
 <section name="Mirror">
 
 <p>You are currently using <b>[preferred]</b>.  If you encounter a