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- <author email="conor@cortexebusiness.com.au">Conor MacNeill</author>
- <author email="stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
- <title>Ant News</title>
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- <section name="Ant Needs a Logo">
- <p>Ant still doesn't have a Logo, but it sure deserves one. We've
- put together a <a href="logos.html">page with proposed
- logos</a>, please take a look at them and tell us what you
- think. If you have a nice logo idea yourself, just submit it to
- the mailing lists.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design">
- <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
- available <a href="/ant/ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
- complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
- give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
-
- <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
- and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
- can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
- discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder">
- <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
- Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a
- href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements">
- <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
- was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
- are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
- be addressed.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
- encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
- <ul>
- <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
- <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
- <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
- <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
- </ul>
-
- It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
- make this the last time that will happen.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the
- Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The
- requirements are being collected into a document which is available
- <a href="/ant/ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
- until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
- for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
- available <a href="/ant/ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
- relevant to Ant 2.0.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
- <a href="/site/mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
- your ideas.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section name="Ant 1.3 Released">
-
- <p>
- Ant 1.3 has been released after going through three betas. Thanks to everyone who
- took the time to test the beta and report bugs and enhancements.
- </p>
-
- <p>You can download the release from
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/">here</a>.
- Both source and binary releases are available in zip, tarball and RPM formats.
- </p>
- <p>Please report all bugs using the
- <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">Apache Bugzilla</a>
- </p>
-
- </section>
-
- </body>
- </document>
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