On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jon Skeet wrote:
> > I don't have any itch with ant1 - and I don't know any issue
> > in ant1 that can't be resolved. The core is reasonably simple ( and
> > there's no sign an ant2 will make it simpler, quite the contrary ).
>
> Not sure I agree with that. There's one itch which Ant2 could scratch,
> and that's finally ditching 1.1-compatibility. Admittedly there will
> still be bits which need different versions of code for different
> versions of Java, but I suspect they'll be greatly reduced. We can start
> using the container classes properly too :)
I'm not sure 'ditching 1.1 compatibility' would be a step forward.
Having at least the basic functionality available in 1.1 is
important - I'm ok if some tasks or features will not be available,
but at least compiling and the basic stuff is important.
I have a zaurus running j2me, and GCJ is not yet fully 1.2 -
those are important targets for me.
There are good ways to clean up the code and make support for 1.1
easier - at least what tomcat 3.3 does is reasonably clean, and
no introspection is required. The curent ant core is reasonably
small, and most tasks won't care.
( of course, few other projects still list JDK1.1
as supported, and I think beeing able to build jakarta projects
with ant2 is quite important :-)
Costin
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