Subject: Re: pkg/18322
To: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/03/2003 12:22:31
Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jan Schaumann wrote:
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> >It appears that between version 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 they renamed the project
> >from "jakarta-ant" to "apache-ant".  The current version is 1.5.3-1.
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> >I have patches to update devel/jakarta-ant to devel/apache-ant version
> >1.5.3.  Do we rename the package?
> 
> I think so, yes.  Dependent packages will need to be a.) updated, and
> b.) tested with the new ant version.

For testing it should be sufficient to see if they build, since that's
all ant does -- ie it should not have any effect on the compiled
program, right?  It appears that that works fine.

> It is also worth looking into a separate package to contain ant's
> optional tasks, which are currently not built.  These cannot be part of
> the base ant package, as a number of them depend on java pkgs which are
> themselves built with ant.

Do you want to look at that now or should I just rename the package and
you deal with that at a later point?

-Jan

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