| Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2 |
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| Changes that could break older environments: |
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| * 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. |
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| 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. |
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| * copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as |
| the filtering attribute. |
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| * the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed. |
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| * the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed. |
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| * the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed. |
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| * Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from |
| org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types. |
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| * the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef> |
| have been removed. |
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| * the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed. |
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| * <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes. |
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| * <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes. |
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| * 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. |
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| * <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly |
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| * <exec> is no longer implemented by org.apache.tool.ant.taskdefs.Exec. |
| Custom tasks that rely on Project.createTask("exec") to return an |
| instance of this class are going to fail. |
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| * nested <include> and <exclude> elements expect the value of their |
| name attribute to be a single pattern, they don't accept multiple |
| patterns anymore. Split them into multiple elements of the same type. |
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| * <delete dir="somedir" /> will now delete the directory itself as |
| well as all included files. If you just want to clean out the |
| directory and keep the empty one, use a nested fileset. |
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| Other changes: |
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| * New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink, |
| junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate, |
| native2ascii, copy, move, mparse. |
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| * copydir, copyfile, deltree and rename are now deprecated. They |
| should be replaced with the new copy, delete and move tasks. |
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| * <java> uses a ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is |
| specified. |
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| * <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess |
| all files if the stylesheet changes. |
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| * 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. |
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| * You can specify environment variables to <exec>. |
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| * <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local |
| copy before it starts a download (HTTP only). |
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| * Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be |
| specified on the command line. |
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| * Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments |
| on log output. |
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| * <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets. |
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| * <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries. |
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| * build.compiler supports now jvc as well. |
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| * project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option. |
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| * Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful) |
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| * 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. |
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| * <echo> can now write to a file and accepts nested text. |
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| Fixed bugs: |
| ----------- |
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| * <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task. |
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| * Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with |
| respect to the Project's basedir. |
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| * Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all |
| cases. |
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| * Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException. |
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| * Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails. |
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| * many more fixes we've forgotten to document here ... |
