Ant 1.7 gibt’s ja schon gefühlte ewige Zeit und bei Ant, dem make des 2.0 Zeitalters, steht ein Update ein. Nichts großes, sondern eher Detailverbesserungen:
Apache Ant 1.8.0RC1 is now available for download .
- 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 entered if these properties evaluate to true, false, on, off
- Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later
- new task include provides an alternative to <import> that should be preferred when you don’t want to override any targets
- numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and in WHATSNEW
While in open source projects a final release date strongly depends on the free time of the volunteers/committers, the final release is expected one to two months maximum after this RC. So Ant 1.8.0 is expected between mid February and mid March 2010.