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+This is a retired project.
+No further development will be done.
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+This is a retired project.
+No further development will be done.
+
+If you want to revive this project, feel free to ask on the dev-mailinglist.
+According to http://ant.apache.org/processes.html#Reactivate%20a%20subproject%20or%20component 
+it can be reactivated. 
+
+The vote about retiring the project was in December 2016:
+http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201612.mbox/ajax/%3C000301d25510%2433d37720%249b7a6560%24%40de%3E
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