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-Changes from Ant 1.5.1Beta1 to 1.5.1
-====================================
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <tstamp>'s prefix attribute failed to apply to nested <format> elements.
-
-* <junitreport> created an empty junit-noframes.html if no format had
- been specified.
-
-* <basename> would remove more than it should if the file name
- contained more than one dot.
-
-* <filterset>s nested into <filterset>s didn't work.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.0
-
-* Filesets now support a 'file' attribute, allowing a single-file
- fileset to be constructed without having to specify its parent
- directory separately.
-
-* <junit> will now return the result of a call to getName instead of
- "unknown" for Test implementations that don't extend TestCase but have
- a public String getName() method.
-
-Changes from Ant 1.5 to 1.5.1Beta1
-==================================
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-* Date/time in CvsChangeLog was in local timezone and 12 hour format leading
- to a problem when sorting by time. It is now UTC (GMT) and in 24-hour
- format as per cvs 'specifications'.
-
-* CvsTagDiff now supports ampersand modules or modules that have a different
- root directory than their name.
-
-* EjbJar threw NPEs for the Websphere element. The property 'websphere.home'
- was not documented.
-
-* Mail example in the documentation was not correct.
-
-* Checksum was broken in the following scenario:
- (using verifyproperty OR in a condition) AND using filesets
- with multiple files.
-
-* The ExpandProperties filter threw NPEs when defined using
- the <filterreader> format.
-
-* The sh wrapper script didn't work under Cygwin if ANT_HOME wasn't
- set with a Unix style filename.
-
-* The sh wrapper script could fail if you started Ant from a directory
- with whitespace in its name.
-
-* ant -diagnostics was not working properly when the task dependency
- was missing and was just printing the missing dependency.
-
-* If a task got redefined via <taskdef>, it lost its child elements.
-
-* <property>'s classpathref attribute was broken.
-
-* <arg line="''" /> would result in no command line argument, will now
- be a single empty argument. Use <arg value="''"/> if you need the
- quotes literally.
-
-* <replaceregexp> could append a newline character at the end of the
- file.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) was
- contributed to the docs.
-
-* <available> will only print deprecration warnings if it is actually
- used to change the value of a property.
-
-Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5
-====================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1
- release has been removed for now. This change may affect only
- the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this
- feature back into Ant 1.6.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set
- the update attribute to true.
-
-* To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert>
- will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty
- string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off
- (default is "true").
-
-* The manifest task would crash XmlLogger
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes
-
-Changes from Ant 1.5beta2 to Ant 1.5beta3
-=========================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener
- list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners
- currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to
- iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed
- during the traversal.
-
-* <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1.
- Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2.
-
-* Some messages that are printed during startup will not be
- written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy
- the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger).
-
-* <pathconvert> won't set the property if the result is the empty string.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to
- start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of
- the basedir.
-
-* Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent
- <ant> and <antcall> tasks.
-
-* <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything.
-
-* <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines.
-
-* <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes)
- before the first task has been executed. This means that properties
- that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other
- tasks in the same <sequential> element.
-
-* <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler
- implementations.
-
-* <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work.
-
-* the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>.
-
-* Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines.
-
-* ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors.
-
-* IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files.
-
-* <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even
- though it doesn't support it.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size).
-
-* The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded
- to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class
- loader instance that has loaded the definition.
-
-* Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional
- arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the
- jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about
- interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new
- <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined.
- Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a
- directory into which the exploded jar is written.
-
-* ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5
-
-Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2
-=========================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means
-that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text
-$$.
-
-* org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask.
-
-* Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4,
-this may break environments that have been adapted to the String
-argument version present in 1.5beta1.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-* When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it
- exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not
- checking if the destination file was actually a directory before
- trying to delete it.
-
-* Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin.
-
-* Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing
-Stack Overflows.
-
-* if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to
-"modern" because there is no classic compiler any more.
-
-* the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now
-it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt
-attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value.
-
-* <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you
-have set ignoreerrors to true.
-
-* <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower
-case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it.
-
-* Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented.
-
-* paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed
-on NetWare.
-
-* runant.pl now supports NetWare.
-
-* <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by
-default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a
-temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy
-settings.
-
-* <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for
-JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the
-user-specified classpath.
-
-* <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS.
-
-* forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would
-use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under
-some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no
-longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the
-command line now.
-
-* the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s
-nested into <antcall> didn't work.
-
-* <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s.
-
-* <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java
-source files could be found below them. This has been backwards
-incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet.
-
-* Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of
-<javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions.
-
-* nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much.
-
-* <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to
-non-existing directories.
-
-* <patch> didn't work at all.
-
-* <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working
-on is locked.
-
-* <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK
-1.2 and AIX.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* z/OS now gets detected by the os condition.
-
-* <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute
-that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms.
-
-* BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task.
-
-* <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans
- based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta
- this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use
- ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc".
-
-* <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming
- convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the
- <ejbjar> attribute
-
-
-Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1
-==================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
- Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
- the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
- a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.
- We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a
- build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with
- the double $$ sign rule.
-
-* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.0.1 along with the XML Parser APIs.
- XML Parser APIs is a separate jar that contains the necessary
- JAXP/DOM/SAX classes.
-
-* <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and
- <write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text
- to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may
- need escaping.
-
-* the RegexpMatcher interface has been extended to support case
- insensitive matches and other options - custom implementations of
- this interface won't work any longer. We recommend to use the new
- Regexp interface that also supports substitution instead of the
- RegexpMatcher interface in the future.
-
-* <gzip> will throw an exception if your src attribute points to a directory.
-
-* Unjar, Unzip and Unwar will throw an exception if the Src attribute
- represents a directory. Support for nested filesets is provided
- instead.
-
-* It is no longer possible to overwrite a property using tasks like
- <condition>, <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional
- cases it will generate a warning if you attempt to overwrite an
- existing property.
-
-* Taskwriters please note: Whenever tasks had any overloaded set* methods,
- Ant's introspection mechanism would select the last overloaded method
- provided to it by the Java Runtime. A modification has now been made such
- that when the Java Runtime provides a method with a String as its argument,
- a check is made to see if there is another overloaded method that takes in
- some other type of argument. If there is one such method, then the method
- that takes in String as an argument is not selected by the Introspector.
-
-* The pattern definition **/._* has been included into the Default
- Excludes list.
-
-* <propertyfile>'s <entry> element was modified to remove "never" as a value
- as its behavior was undocumented and flakey.
-
-* The -projecthelp flag now only prints out targets that include the
- 'description' attribute, unless the -verbose or -debug flag is included
- on the Ant command line.
-
-* Ant's testcases now require JUnit 3.7 or above, as they now use the new
- assertTrue method instead of assert.
-
-* If the 'output' attribute of <ant> is set to a simple filename or a
- relative path, the file is created relative to ${basedir}, not ${user.dir}.
-
-* The default value for build.compiler is now javac1.x with x
- depending on the JDK that is running Ant instead of classic/modern.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-* A bug existed that prevented generated log files from being deleted as
- part of the build process itself. This has now been fixed.
-
-* Fixed bug where <move> ignored <filterset>s.
-
-* Ant works properly with the combination of Java1.4/WindowsXP.
-
-* Fixed bug where <java> used to sometimes invoke class constructors twice.
-
-* Fixed bug with 4NT shell support.
-
-* Fixed bug where ant would not perform ftp without remotedir being
- specified even though this was not mandatory.
-
-* Fixed bug where ant would not copy system properties into new Project
- in ant/antcall tasks when inheritall="false" is set.
-
-* <propertyfile> would not close the original property file.
-
-* <ant> will no longer override a subbuild's basedir with inheritall="true".
-
-* Fixed problem with the built-in <junit> formatters which assumed
- that only one test could be running at the same time - this is not
- necessarily true, see junit.extensions.ActiveTestSuite.
-
-* <jar>'s whenEmpty attribute is useless as JARs are never empty, they
- contain at least a manifest file, therefore it will now print a
- warning and do nothing.
-
-* <typedef> hasn't been all that useful as it couldn't be used outside
- of targets (it can now) and nested "unknown" elements have always
- been considered to be tasks (changed as well).
-
-* <fixcrlf> would fail for files that contained lines longer than 8kB.
-
-* Some junit formatters incorrectly assumed that all testcases would
- inherit from junit.framework.TestCase.
-
-* <fixcrlf> dropped the first characters from Mac files.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-* Selector Elements now provide a way to create filesets based on
- sophisticated selection criteria.
-
-* Gzip and Bzip2 files can now be constructed in the fly when using
- the tar task without having to create the intermediate tar file on
- disk. The Untar task can also untar GZip and BZip2 files on the fly
- without creating the intermediate tar file.
-
-* New optional type, <classfileset> added.
-
-* <ejbjar> now allows control over which additional classes and interfaces
- are added to the generated EJB jars. A new attribute "dependency" can be
- defined which controls what classes are added. The addition of classes now uses
- the Jakarta-BCEL library rather than reflection, meaning bean classes are
- no longer loaded into Ant's JVM. The default dependency analyzer is known as
- the ancestor analyzer. It provides the same behaviour as the 1.4.1 version of
- <ejbjar>. If the BCEL library is not present, a warning will be issued stating
- the ancestor analyzer is not available. In this case <ejbjar> will continue
- to function but will not add super classes to the jar.
-
-* <available> has a new attribute named ignoreSystemClasses.
-
-* New task <cvschangelog/> generates an XML report of changes that occur
- on CVS repository.
-
-* New filter readers: ClassConstants, ExpandProperties, HeadFilter,
- LineContains, LineContainsRegExp, PrefixLines, ReplaceTokens,
- StripJavaComments, StripLineBreaks, StripLineComments, TabsToSpaces,
- TailFilter.
-
-* <copy>, <loadfile>, <loadproperties>, <move> support FilterChains
- of FilterReaders.
-
-* New task <loadproperties> to load contents of file as Ant properties,
- with nested <filterchain> elements.
-
-* New task <loadfile> to load a whole file into a property.
-
-* New task <echoproperties> to list your current properties to the screen
- or a file.
-
-* New tasks <bzip2> and <bunzip2> to pack and unpack files using the
- BZip2 alogrithm.
-
-* New tasks <replaceregexp>, <checksum>, <translate>, <waitfor>,
- <manifest>, <vsscp>, <vssadd>, <vsscreate>, <splash>, <basename>, <dirname>,
- <concat>, <sourceoffsite>, <jarlib-available>, <jarlib-display>,
- <jarlib-manifest>, <jarlib-resolve>.
-
-* A new combined <mail> task, which replaces the old <mail> and
- <mimemail> tasks, has been added. The <mimemail> task, and
- old SendEmail and MimeMail classes have been deprecated.
-
-* Mail task allows specification of port number.
-
-* Users can control what <zip> and <jar> must do when duplicate files
- are found. A new element <zipgroupfileset> allows for multiple zip
- files to be merged into the archive. In addition, <jar> also has
- another new attribute: filesetmanifest. The existing manifest
- attribute of <jar> now also accepts the name of a jar added through
- a fileset.
-
-* gzip now checks that the zipfile is older than the source file
- before rebuilding the zipfile.
-
-* TarFileset takes in three new attributes - fullpath, prefix
- and preserveLeadingSlashes.
-
-* <move> attempts to rename the directory, if everything inside it is
- included, before performing file-by-file moves. This attempt will
- be done only if filtering is off and if mappers are not used. This
- is a performance improvement and there is no change otherwise in
- the funtionality of this task.
-
-* Exec task has extra attribute "resultproperty" to get the return code
- into a property.
-
-* Exec task prints a message when a timed-out process is killed.
-
-* Added optional attributes - name, arch and version to the <os> task.
-
-* Unjar, Untar, Unwar and Unzip now support patternsets to
- select files from an archive for extraction. Filesets may be
- used to select archived files for unarchival.
-
-* Javac task allows debug levels to be specified. Debug levels
- will have an effect only when the modern compiler or the
- classic compiler (version 1.2 and higher) is used and debugging
- is enabled.
-
-* Added support for specifying CVS_RSH in the <cvs/> task
-
-* The attributes zipfile, jarfile, warfile and earfile (from the Zip,
- Jar, War and Ear tasks) have been deprecated and superseded by a
- new attribute "destfile".
-
-* Added new conditions <isset>, <checksum>, <http>, <socket>, <contains>,
- <filesmatch>.
-
-* <taskdef> and <typedef> will now emit a warning if a task/type of
- the given name already exists.
-
-* A new revision of VAJ tasks: The most important new feature
- is the ability to execute VAJ tasks from the command line by
- exploiting the Remote Tool Access feature of VAJ.
-
-* Improved support for Novell NetWare.
-
-* Added an optional encoding attribute to <fixcrlf>.
-
-* <apply> has a new attribute relative that allows users to pass the
- filenames as relative instead of absolute paths on the command line.
-
-* References can now be copied into the child build by <ant> and
- <antcall> using nested <reference> elements or the new inheritRefs
- attribute.
-
-* <fail> now supports builds to fail based on conditions via if and
- unless attributes.
-
-* Ant now comes with two new BuildLogger implementations - one that
- can send emails containing a log of the build process (MailLogger),
- and one that colorizes the output based on message levels, using
- ANSI color code escape sequences (AnsiColorLogger).
-
-* A "package" mapper type has been added to allow package directory
- names replaced with the dotted form.
-
-* You can now specify environment variables in the <java> and <junit> tasks
- if the fork attribute has been set to true.
-
-* -propertyfile command-line option has been added to load an entire
- property file just as -D properties are declared (as user properties).
- -D properties take precedence over -propertyfile specified ones.
-
-* You can now set an ANT_ARGS environment variable to hold arguments you
- always want passed to the 'ant' command -- for example, if you always
- want to use a different logger or the -find flag.
-
-* <tstamp> now supports a new "prefix" attribute to prefix properties set.
-
-* You can now specify the -sourcepath for <javac> explicitly.
-
-* <javac> now supports a new "listfiles" attribute to list the source
- files it's handing off to the compiler.
-
-* The compiler implementation for <javac> can now be chosen on a task by
- task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <javac> can be used to override
- the value of the build.compiler property, if set.
-
-* <javac> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
- to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
-
-* <javac>'s "source" attribute is now enabled for jikes as well.
-
-* <propertyfile>'s <entry> now has a 'unit' attribute to specify the
- increment/decrement unit on date operations.
-
-* <property> now supports a 'prefix' attribute when loading from a file
- or resource.
-
-* In Ant 1.4, a feature has been added to the <junit> task that would
- add ant.jar, optional.jar and junit.jar implicitly to the classpath -
- this feature can now be disabled by setting the new includeantruntime
- attribute to false.
-
-* <style> behaves differently from any other directory-based task, as it
- processes all files that it finds in included directories in
- addition to the files matched by your patterns. There is now a new
- attribute, 'scanincludeddirectories', to suppress this behavior.
-
-* <javadoc> now supports a <tag> nested element to provide the -tag option
- to the standard Java 1.4 doclet. The element is ignored when not running
- on Java 1.4.
-
-* <ftp> can now chmod files on a remote server that supports
- "site chmod", as well as set the umask before transferring files, if
- the server supports "site umask".
-
-* New <serverdeploy> "optional" task.
-
-* <patternset> now supports nested patternsets.
-
-* Perforce tasks now support a "failonerror" attribute (defaults to "true").
-
-* Open Source application server JOnAS support:
- EJB hot deploy and deploy with <serverdeploy> and <ejbjar>
-
-* Added new DirSet (<dirset>) datatype.
-
-* <path> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
-
-* <pathconvert> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
-
-* <pathconvert>'s "dirsep" and "pathsep" attributes now accept
- multi-character values.
-
-* <copy> task now has a 'failonerror' attribute to allow keep-going
- behaviour when the file to be copied is not found (defaults to "true").
-
-* <uptodate> now has a 'srcfile' attribute to allow specifying a
- full-path filename.
-
-* <exec>, <sql> and <java> now support append attributes to allow
- appending the output to an existing file.
-
-* <java> now supports a timeout attribute analog to <exec> - it is
- highly recommended to only use it together with fork="true".
-
-* <javadoc> now supports a source attribute to enable javadoc to
- handle assertions present in JDK 1.4 source code.
-
-* <replace> supports a new replacefilterfile attribute that
- automatically turns all properties of a given file into
- replacefilters.
-
-* An alias of <xslt> has been added to refer to the <style> task.
-
-* The compiler implementation for <rmic> can now be chosen on a task by
- task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <rmic> can be used to override
- the value of the build.rmic property, if set.
-
-* <rmic> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
- to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
-
-* org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger now is a BuildLogger, rather than just
- a BuildListener. It can operate in either mode successfully.
-
-* <junit> has a new attribute "showoutput". If set to true, output
- generated by tests will be sent to Ant's logging system as well as
- to the formatters (instead of sending it to the formatters
- exclusively).
-
-* Ant has now a pluggable way to prompt users for input, which is used
- by the new <input> task. IDE integrators can provide an
- implementation of the InputHandler interface to decouple Ant's input
- from the console. An implementation that gets its input from a file
- for unattended builds is part of Ant's distribution.
-
- For more details see docs/manual/inputhandler.html.
-
-* <patch> has a new attribute that selects the directory in which to
- run the command.
-
-* <javadoc> now supports two new nested elements, <fileset> and <packageset>.
-
-Changes from Ant 1.4 to Ant 1.4.1
-===========================================
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <ant>'s antfile attribute will now also be considered an absolute path on
- Windows systems, if it starts with a \ and no drive specifier.
-
-* The fullpath attribute of <zipfileset> has been ignored if you used
- the src attribute at the same time.
-
-* The manifest file is now always placed as the second entry (after /META-INF)
- in generated jars. This allows the manifest to be read by JarInputStreams
-
-* Fixed bug in depend task which would fail with a NullPointerException if no
- dependency cache was specified.
-
-* sql task now handles REM statements correctly so that lines starying with rem
- but which are not comments are actually processed.
-
-* XMLLogger now uses the task's name rather than the classname
-
-* <mapper>s will now work as expected if the to pattern expands to an
- absolute pathname.
-
-* <javac> didn't ignore memory settings in non-fork mode
-
-* <cab> didn't split the options attribute into several command line
- arguments correctly.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* New source attribute for <javac> to enable assertion in JDK 1.4
-
-* XmlLogger and <antstructure> now add an encoding declaration to the
- XML files they generate.
-
-* <fileset> has a new attribute "casesensitive" to make it match
- filenames in a case insensitive way (if you set it to false) - by
- default filesets remain case sensitive.
-
-Changes from Ant 1.3 to Ant 1.4
-===========================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-* JUnitReport now uses the xalan redirect extension for multi-output.
- With Xalan 1.2.2 it forces the use of bsf.jar in the classpath.
- (Available in the xalan distribution). It is recommended to switch
- to Xalan 2.x that do not need it.
-
-* Zip.setWhenempty() has changed its signature.
-
-* <rmic> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
- rmic to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
- versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
-
-* several Zip methods have changed their signature as we now use a Zip
- package of our own that handles Unix permissions for directories.
- Furthermore <zip> will now use the platform's default character
- encoding for filenames - this is consistent with the command line
- ZIP tools, but causes problems if you try to open them from within
- Java and your filenames contain non US-ASCII characters. Use the new
- encoding attribute of the task and set it to UTF8 to get the old
- behavior.
-
-* The <pvcs> task has been moved to a package of its own.
-
-* JUnitResultFormater has two additional methods that must be
- implemented by custom formatters.
-
-* Ant will no longer use the canonical version of a path internally -
- this may yield different results on filesystems that support
- symbolic links.
-
-* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed
- again, it doesn't format the numeric value in the time attribute anymore.
-
-* Pattern matching rules have changes slightly, the pattern foo*
- doesn't match files contained in a directory named foo - use foo/*
- instead.
-
-* <fixcrlf> will not remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines anymore.
-
-* The Classloader usage has been changed for the taskdef, property, available
- and sql tasks so that it delegates to the parent classloader. This may cause
- ClassNotFoundExceptions to be thrown if a system class attempts to load a
- class in the taskdef's classpath (typically factory objects).
-
-* Ant now allows multithreading of tasks and the containment of tasks within
- other tasks. This can break customer listeners which do not expect messages
- from a task before the previous task has finished.
-
-* Ant now installs its own ouput stream into System.out to route output to the
- task currently executing on the current thread. This also means that all
- output is now routed as Ant message events. Customer listeners and loggers
- should not call System.out at any time. This has always been true but such
- usage now will cause problems due to possible recursion.
-
-* Invalid manifest files will now cause build failures in the <jar> task.
-
-* Ant Introspection now looks for methods with method names starting with
- addConfigured. When called these methods are passed an argument after it has
- been configured from the build file. Custom tasks supporting nested elements
- starting with the name configured will no longer function.
-
-* The environment variable JAVACMD that can be used to specify the
- java executable to Ant's wrapper scripts must not contain additional
- command line parameters any longer - please use the environment
- variable ANT_OPTS for such parameters now.
-
-* Ant's wrapper scripts now quote the CLASSPATH environment variable, thus
- supporting classpaths which refer to directories containing spaces. This means
- that the CLASSPATH environment variable cannot have quotes. Any quotes should
- be removed. This will not affect the operation of the CLASSPATH environment
- variable in other contexts.
-
-* A delete task like
- <delete includeEmptyFilesets="true">
- <fileset dir="somedir" />
- </delete>
- will now remove "somedir" as well, unless there are still files left
- in it (matched by the default excludes).
-
-* The copy task will now fail if the file to be copied is not found.
-
-* Ant properties defined in properties files now behave the same way as
- properties defined in the build file. In particular the $ character needs
- to be escaped in property values by doubling it to $$. So, to define a
- property with the value $hello, you need to define it in a properties file
- as
- test.prop=$$hello
- This was not the case in Ant 1.3
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* New tasks: ear, p4counter, record, cvspass, vsscheckin, vsscheckout,
- typedef, sleep, mimemail, set of tasks for Continuus/Synergy, dependset,
- condition, maudit, mmetrics, jpcoverage, jpcovreport, jpcovmerge
-
-* Ant now uses JAXP 1.1
-
-* rmic now supports Kaffe's and Weblogic's version of rmic.
-
-* new magic property build.rmic to chose the rmic implementation
-
-* <tar> will now add empty directories as well
-
-* you can now specify a description for <p4change>
-
-* <touch> can now work on <fileset>s
-
-* <uptodate> now supports a value attribute
-
-* <fail> supports nested text
-
-* <fixcrlf> won't override files that are already in the correct
- format.
-
-* <sql> now supports REM comments as well as // and --
-
-* <jar> now has a nested <metainf> element following the same idea as
- <war>'s <webinf>.
-
-* <pvcs> can now handle multiple projects.
-
-* <available> now has a "type" attribute you can use in conjunction
- with the "file" attribute to specify whether the "file" you're
- looking for is a file or a directory.
-
-* New <junit> formatter named "brief"
-
-* <ejbjar> changes
- * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using
- a <borland> nested element.
- * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also
- includes some iPlanet utility tasks
- * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task.
- * Add a naming attribute to control the naming scheme that
- ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars.
- * Weblogic element now sets the compiler class for EJB 2.0 beans
- * <dtd> elements can be specified at the <ejbjar> level for building generic
- beans
- * <dtd> elements can now be URLs
- * Allow the manifest to be specified for the generated jars
- * The weblogic element now supprts an attribte noEJBC to skip the processing
- of the jar by ejbc. The ejbc step will then occur at deployment
- * weblogic will tell ejbc to use Jikes compiler if build.compiler is set to
- jikes. It can be restored to the default, javac, operation if desired.
-
-* Allow the <sql> Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be
- entered
-
-* <execon> and <apply> can now optionally skip empty filesets.
-
-* <javadoc> has a new useexternalfile attribute that makes it use a
- temporary file for sourcefile and package names - helps to defeat
- command line length limitations.
-
-* Data types like <path> can now be defined inside of <target>s
-
-* you can now specify a classpath for <style> - the XSLZ processor
- will be loaded from this path
-
-* added a force attribute to <style> to support dependencies that the
- task cannot determine itself (dependency on parameters, not file
- modification times for example)
-
-* added vmlauncher attribute to exec tasks. This defaults to true. If
- it is set to false, the VM's ability to launch commands in bypassed
- and the OS shell, either directly or through the auxillary antRun
- scripts is used.
-
-* regexp mapper now supports the java.util.regex package of JDK 1.4.
-
-* New filesonly attribute for <zip> and friends to suppress directory
- entries.
-
-* New update attribute for <zip> and friends - update an existing
- archive instead of creating a new one.
-
-* <apply> and <execon> have been merged into a single task.
-
-* added vssver.scc to the default excludes
-
-* <available> has a new filepath attribute/nested element that allows
- you top search for a file in a given path.
-
-* <junit> can now optionally set a property on test failure.
-
-* <taskdef> can now define several tasks at once, reading the
- name/classname pairs from a property file or resource.
-
-* <unzip/unjar/unwar> and <untar> now have an overwrite attribute that
- defaults to true. If set to false, files that are newer than the
- files in the archive will not be replaced.
-
-* <patternset> and <fileset> now support nested <in/excludesfile>
- elements - using these you can have more than one in/excludes file
- per <patternset>.
-
-* Three new supported compilers for javac: kjc for kopi, gcj for the
- gcc frontend and sj for Symantec's compiler.
- In addition extJavac or the new fork attribute can be
- used to run the JDK's javac in a JVM separate from Ant.
-
-* <fixrlf> can now with CR only line-ends and can use an arbitraty
- between 2 and 80.
-
-* The .NET tasks have been adapted to the beta2 release of the framework.
-
-* <move> will now try to rename() files before copying them byte by
- byte - only if filtering is of, of course.
-
-* <ant> and <antcall> tasks now support a new attribute inheritAll. When set to
- false, only user properties are passed through to the target Ant instance.
- This includes properties set on the command line and properties explicitly
- passed
-
-* <javadoc> now skips off line links if the package list cannot be found.
-
-* <wlrun> now allows the security policy file to exist outside the weblogic
- directory.
-
-* <java> task will set the Thread contextClassLoader under JDKs 1.2+ to the
- classloader for the class being executed.
-
-* Introduce the concept of a TaskContainer - a task or element which can contain
- Ant Tasks.
-
-* Add new tasks implementing the TaskContainer interface <parallel> and
- <sequential> which allow parallel execution of tasks to be specified.
-
-* <depend> task will now take into account dependencies on jar files and class
- files from a given classpath.
-
-* <jar> manifest entries may now be specified in the build file either
- completely or to be merged with a manifest file.
-
-* <tstamp> task custom formats now support locales.
-
-* Added a listner which will forward events to Log4J. The log4j configuration
- file should be in the directory from which Ant is run or passed as a system
- property using a JVM argument.
-
-* Introduced the concept of <filtersets> to allow for more control in which
- filters get applied in a <copy> or <move> operation.
-
-* Added nowarn attribute to javac and deprecated the Jikes-magic property
- build.compiler.warnings.
-
-* The <depend> task cache format has changed and all dependency information is
- now stored in a single file.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* Testcases have been made independent of current working directory.
-
-* Input ZIP-Files will be closed when using a <zipfileset>.
-
-* p4 tasks now don't fail if user, port or client have been omitted
- (and this is acceptable for the context of the command).
-
-* <javah>'s outputfile attribute will be resolved as relative to the
- projects basedir.
-
-* <antstructure> should create a valid DTD for propertyfile.operation.entry
- and omit tasks it fails to load.
-
-* won't try to pass a -bootclasspath flag to javac 1.1 anymore
-
-* <style>'s style attribute no handles absolute paths correctly.
-
-* <delete includeemptydirs="true"> now deletes more than just the leaf
- directories.
-
-* You can now specify a <fileset> for a directory that doesn't exist at
- declaration time but will created before the fileset gets used for the
- first time.
-
-* If the quiet attribute has been set, <delete> will handle <fileset>s
- with non-existing directories gracefully.
-
-* Output written by testcases will now be captured by the <junit> task
- and passed to the formatters.
-
-* Quote the -group parameter to Javadoc as per the specification
-
-* Initialise classes when loaded through the AntClassLoader - that is, run
- static initializers
-
-* Implement getResource() and getResources() in AntClassLoader
-
-* Create the <ejbjar> weblogic command line as a set of arguments rather than
- as a single line. Avoids problems with paths which contain spaces.
-
-* <ejbjar> now fails when the weblogic ejbc compiler reports an error.
-
-* Make the AntClassLoader load resources in the same order as it currently
- loads classes.
-
-* Handle classpaths with spaces
-
-* Make sure XSLT processors close their output files in <style>.
-
-* perform proper uptodate check in <rmic> when compiling for IIOP.
-
-* <jjtree>'s uptodate test works even if outputdirectory is not the
- parent dir of target
-
-* <copy> will remove target file (if it exists) before writing to it -
- this avoids problems with links on filesystems that support them.
-
-* <ftp> now properly recurses remote directories.
-
-* <ftp> closes remote connection when it's done.
-
-* <junit> tries to include all necessary classes for the task itself
- to the classpath when running in fork mode - doesn't work for JDK 1.1
-
-* <apply> and <execon> do now execute the command only once, if you
- specify the parallel attribute - instead of once per fileset.
-
-* directory based tasks and fileset could miss some included files in
- directories that have been excluded
-
-* <fixcrlf> failed for large files.
-
-* <move> removed files you tried to move to themselves.
-
-* <sql> task will not trty to print the result set unless the query succeeded.
-
-* Ant classloader will now ignore paths which are invalid relative to the
- project base
-
-* <ejbjar> weblogic elements check for jar file changes has been fixed.
- Previously some changes would not be included.
-
-* properties loaded from properties files are now resolved internally. This
- removes the spurious warnings about usage of properties which have not been
- set.
-
-* <jar> task and friends now process the JAR manifest to ensure it is valid.
-
-* The task finished event now includes any exception thrown by the task.
-
-* <java> task now supports a jvmVersion attribute so that if another JVM is
- being used, Ant can determine which options to use for features such as the
- VM memory limits
-
-
-Changes from Ant 1.2 to Ant 1.3
-===========================================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* Ant doesn't search for the buildfile anymore, unless you use the new
- -find argument.
-
-* <perforce> has been replaced by a number of new tasks.
-
-* <javac> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
- javac to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
- versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
-
-* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed a
- little, it doesn't append " sec" in the time attribute anymore.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* A GUI Frontend: Antidote. This is currently in development. At this
- time, this is not part of the Ant release, although the source is
- included if you are interested.
-
-* New tasks: stylebook, propertyfile, depend, antlr, telnet, csc,
- ilasm, apply, javah, several clearcase tasks, junitreport, sound
-
-* Added output attribute to <java>.
-
-* Added nested zipfileset element to <zip>
-
-* Changed <sql> so that printing is at the task level rather than
- the statement level.
-
-* javadoc task will pass -d flag to any doclet if the destDir attribute is
- given. If the doclet does not accept the -d flag then omit the destdir
- attribute.
-
-* <cab> can work on non-Windows platforms with the help of libcabinet.
- See http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/.
-
-* <ftp> now supports passive mode.
-
-* New <mapper> data type that can be used to get influence on the
- target files for some tasks like <copy> or enable new types of tasks
- like <apply>.
-
-* <execon> provides more control over the command line now, the names
- of the source files are no longer required to be at the end of the
- command.
-
-* Style tasks will now support TraX compliant XSL processors if one is present
- in your classpath.
-
-* Added a failonerror to the javac task. If set to false, the build will
- continue even if there are compilation errors.
-
-* Added nested format elements to the tstamp task allowing additional time
- formats to be defined for arbitrary properties.
-
-* Added classpath attribute and nested classpath element to <property>
- to make the resource attribute more powerful.
-
-* ${} property expansion will now be performed on the patterns read
- from files specified as includesfile or excludesfile attributes.
-
-* The <tar> and <untar> tasks now support GNU format for handling paths
- which are greater than 100 characters in length. In addition the <tar>
- task now supports nested filesets through which the file permissions
- may be controlled.
-
-* wlrun, wlstop and ejbjar now support Weblogic 6.0
-
-* The MPasre task has been updated to work with MParse 2.0
-
-* The documentation has been significantly updated.
-
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <signjar> doesn't use deprectated methods anymore.
-
-* javadoc's failonerror attribute works again
-
-* javadoc's additionalparam attribute will now be split into separate
- parameters (on spaces) to allow for more than one parameter.
-
-* Changed <sql> task so that printing result sets works on Oracle
-
-* Changes to ddcreator and ejbc helper to respect the descriptor hierarchy
- keppgenerated in ejbc can now be turned off
-
-* ejbjar now correctly ignores <ejb-ref> elements in the deployment descriptor.
- CMP files are included by parsing the weblogic deployment descriptor rather
- than relying on the naming convention used in ant 1.2
-
-* ejbjar includes super classes and super interfaces into the generated ejb
- jar files. The <support> nested element allows support classes to be
- included in the EJB jar. The toplink element should now correctly locate
- the toplink descriptor.
-
-* <vssget> now correctly deals with spaces in arguments
-
-* <jar> fails early if a given manifest file doesn't exist
-
-* <rmic> doesn't search for the _Skel file anymore when stubversion is
- set to 1.2.
-
-* <rmic> uses the the same classpath to verify a class can be rmic'd
- as it passes to the compiler.
-
-* org.apache.tools.mail.MailMessage (and therefore <mail>) can now
- handle SMTP servers sending multi line responses.
-
-* nested <classpath> elements of <taskdef> now work for <taskdef>s not
- nested into <target> as well.
-
-* <property> and <available> will search for the resource "foo" instead
- of "/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/foo" when given a relative resource
- name foo.
-
-* Handle build files in directories whose name contained a "#" character
-
-* <junit> can now log to files whose name contains a comma as well.
-
-* The AntClassLoader now refers to the loader which loaded it, any
- requests it does not handle itself. Previously these went to the
- primordial loader.
-
-Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2
-===============================
-
-Changes that could break older environments:
---------------------------------------------
-
-* 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.
-
-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.
-
-* copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as
-the filtering attribute.
-
-* the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed.
-
-* the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed.
-
-* the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed.
-
-* Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from
-org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types.
-
-* the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef>
-have been removed.
-
-* the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed.
-
-* <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes.
-
-* <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes.
-
-* 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.
-
-* <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly
-
-* <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.
-
-* 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.
-
-* <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.
-
-Other changes:
---------------
-
-* New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink,
-junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate,
-native2ascii, copy, move, mparse.
-
-* copydir, copyfile, deltree and rename are now deprecated. They
-should be replaced with the new copy, delete and move tasks.
-
-* <java> uses a ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is
-specified.
-
-* <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess
-all files if the stylesheet changes.
-
-* 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.
-
-* You can specify environment variables to <exec>.
-
-* <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local
-copy before it starts a download (HTTP only).
-
-* Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be
-specified on the command line.
-
-* Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments
-on log output.
-
-* <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets.
-
-* <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries.
-
-* build.compiler supports now jvc as well.
-
-* project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option.
-
-* Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful)
-
-* 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.
-
-* <echo> can now write to a file and accepts nested text.
-
-Fixed bugs:
------------
-
-* <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task.
-
-* Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with
-respect to the Project's basedir.
-
-* Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all
-cases.
-
-* Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException.
-
-* Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails.
-
-* many more fixes we've forgotten to document here ...
-
-* The packagelistloc attribute of <javadoc>'s <link> child will be
- resolved as a file (i.e. it is either absolute or relative to
- basedir).
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