Ant 1.5 (still in beta) is available and already widely used even for production work in enterprises. The new features are a big step forward. What's more the software is *really* stable. That's why upgrading to this version would benefit to everyone.
*** Bug 4480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seemant: Here is another one of meekrob's old bugs. //ZhEN
Karl, i'm not really familiar with Ant but "The new features are a big step forward." sounds scarey while in a freeze. Do you know by any chance if it's backward compatible?
We're not including Ant-1.5 in Gentoo 1.4. It has serious issued on PPC, for one thing. This will have to wait until after the freeze lifts.
Is this bug still valid, and if it is, is it a documentation issue? //ZhEN
Yes, the bug is valid, and we have a lot of duplicates for it. The problem is that ant 1.5 is reported to only work with green threads on PPC and doesn't have a properly working script on either of our platforms. With the new testing profile, we should probably fix and test these issues and mark 1.5 as ~x86, ~ppc at least.
Yep, installing postgresql (which was in a depends somewhere up the chain for my kde-3.1_beta2) with all my use vars on ++, I got something like: /usr/bin/ant: line 85: syntax error: unexpected end of line The point is that I wasn't expecting ant 1.5 to be installed at all; but in fact (in my 1.4_rc1 distro portage tree) 1.5 *is* masked... as dev-lang/ant-1.5. But it needs to be masked as =dev-java/ant-1.5. Just fyi. This will help ppl in my situation. My solution was to unmerge ant 1.5, then to mask =dev-java/ant-1.5, then merge ant, then postgres.
This should be fixed with dev-java/ant-1.5.1
