Apache Ant 1.5.4 Released

Dan writes "Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released, it addresses problems relating to java, and visual age for java tasks."

Re:Is this slashdot or freshmeat?

[metamatic]

CLUE: Ant is the Java equivalent of make.

The announcement is hopelessly vague, though. "...addresses problems relating to java..." No, really? A release of a Java program for building Java programs addresses problems which are related to Java? I'd never have guessed.

Should be javah, not java

[jtheory]

To clarify the announcement, from the article:

If you don't use Visual Age for Java or , there is no reason to upgrade from Ant 1.5.3.

So... even most Java developers won't be interested in this announcement.

Re:Should be javah, not java

[aminorex]

Not even most *Ant* users, which are already a tiny
minority of Java developers.

Re:Should be javah, not java

[BigGerman]

I must be in the wrong universe again...
Most of the projects I have seen since 2000 use Ant ( server-side Java ).

Re:Is this slashdot or freshmeat?

[Mr. Shiny And New]

I know what ANT is; I use it every day. Having looked at the linked-to announcement, where they say "don't bother upgrading unless one of the two specific bugs fixed bothers you", it seems to me that it's rather not worthwhile to post this to slashdot. It's not NEWS after all. There are websites (freshmeat, among others) dedicated to this sort of announcement.

I can understand posting to /. when some major software is released, like a kernel or apache webserver or some critical security fix, but please;

Great.

[E_elven]

Now you can 'compile' your 'programs' even 'faster' and thus 'enhance' your 'development' time.

slashdot announcement incorrect

[blind_abraxas]

It's problems relating to 'javah', not java. A quote from the manpage for javah : "javah produces C header files and C source files from a Java class. These files provide the connective glue that allow your Java and C code to interact. " Sort of useful. the javah manpage for solaris [sun.com]

Re:slashdot announcement incorrect

[g_goblin]

And I thought Java was the end all language -- sorry C Zealout here i couldn't resist

from the announcement:

[fmerenda]

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From "Stefan Bodewig"
Subject [ANN] Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released
Date Wed, August 13, 2003 12:21 am
To e.org,[e-mail],[e-mail] . org,[e-mail]

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Apache Ant 1.5.4 is a minor bugfix release that adresses problems in
two domains:

(1) With JDK 1.4.2 Sun has changed the entry point for javah,
therefore Ant 1.5.3's task doesn't work on JDK 1.4.2 anymore.

(2) The Visual Age for Java tasks had some major flaws.

If you d

memory leaks?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ant is famous for having lots of nasty memory leaks. Normally this is not an issue because you run it from command line and ant terminates very quickly, however, for those who use it inside a plugin (like via Eclipse), it's a big issue.

Is ant team going to do anything about the memory leaks?