Re: [ANN] Ant 1.8.0RC1 released

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Foreman
Hi, Thanks for the quick response. I realise that as an F/OSS project that timelines are not strict but its nice to have a rough timeline. The reason for this from my point of view is that I release a project that is tied into the Ant version we use. I am interested in the 1.8.0 functionallity a

Re: [ANN] Ant 1.8.0RC1 released

2010-01-14 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
Alex Foreman wrote: Is there a Roadmap with planned releases available? E.G. have we any idea how long before 1.8.0 final will be out? Ant is an open source project and does not have strict time lines, everything is subject to votes. My guess as a release manager is that the final release

Re: [ANN] Ant 1.8.0RC1 released

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Foreman
Many thanks for this, looks like some really good improvements whcih will make my life much easier :) Is there a Roadmap with planned releases available? E.G. have we any idea how long before 1.8.0 final will be out? I can find the bug list but no rough release dates or if there are going to be m

[ANN] Ant 1.8.0RC1 released

2010-01-12 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
Hi, Apache Ant 1.8.0RC1 is now available for download. The most important changes are : * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be extended with custom targets more easily * if and unless attributes will be evaluated according to the values of the properties ente