Re:Is this slashdot or freshmeat?
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metamatic
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· Score: 3, Informative
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.
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Should be javah, not java
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jtheory
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· Score: 2, Informative
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.
-- There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Re:Should be javah, not java
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aminorex
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
Not even most *Ant* users, which are already a tiny minority of Java developers.
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Re:Should be javah, not java
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BigGerman
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· Score: 1
I must be in the wrong universe again...
Most of the projects I have seen since 2000 use Ant ( server-side Java ).
Now you can 'compile' your 'programs' even 'faster' and thus 'enhance' your 'development' time.
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Re:Is this slashdot or freshmeat?
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Mr.+Shiny+And+New
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· Score: 2, Insightful
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; this release is probably the most trivial ant release ever, and people don't rely on ant the way they rely on httpd.
slashdot announcement incorrect
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blind_abraxas
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· Score: 4, Informative
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
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Re:slashdot announcement incorrect
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g_goblin
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· Score: 1
And I thought Java was the end all language -- sorry C Zealout here i couldn't resist
from the announcement:
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fmerenda
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· Score: 2, Informative
===BEGIN=== From "Stefan Bodewig" Subject [ANN] Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released Date Wed, August 13, 2003 12:21 am To e.org,announce@apache.org,announce@jakarta.apache. org,announce@xml.apache.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
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 don't use Visual Age for Java or , there is no reason to upgrade from Ant 1.5.3.
Note that Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports JDK 1.1 at runtime. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or later to run. Compiling for a 1.1 target JVM will still be possible with Ant 1.6.
You can download Ant as binary distribution from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi or as source distribution from http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi.
Thank you for using Ant.
The Apache Ant Project === END ===
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memory leaks?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Interesting
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?
Re:memory leaks?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Ant does not have memory leaks. The problem in Eclipse is caused by the way Eclipse is instantiating Ant. Basically, Eclipse creates a new classpath (from all the ant libraries, and everything on your build path) every time you run ant. After a while, especially on a large project, this adds up and memroy is consumed. Eclipse developers know about this bug, and have added a *temporary* fix to the latest 3 branch builds. The reason this was done this way was to allow a developer to customize the ant build path without requiring a restart.
that's wierd
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
I saw the ad and thought it was very fair and balanced. Of course, it might be just that you dislike hearing truths that don't coincide with your own fanatsies about the world. Whatever.
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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.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
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.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Now you can 'compile' your 'programs' even 'faster' and thus 'enhance' your 'development' time.
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
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.
/. when some major software is released, like a kernel or apache webserver or some critical security fix, but please; this release is probably the most trivial ant release ever, and people don't rely on ant the way they rely on httpd.
I can understand posting to
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
one two three four five ?!! That's the combination on my luggage!
===BEGIN===. org,announce@xml.apache.org
From "Stefan Bodewig"
Subject [ANN] Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released
Date Wed, August 13, 2003 12:21 am
To e.org,announce@apache.org,announce@jakarta.apache
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
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 don't use Visual Age for Java or , there is no reason to
upgrade from Ant 1.5.3.
Note that Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports JDK 1.1 at
runtime. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or later to run. Compiling for a 1.1 target JVM will still be
possible with Ant 1.6.
You can download Ant as binary distribution from
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi or as source distribution from
http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi.
Thank you for using Ant.
The Apache Ant Project
=== END ===
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Photography inspired by music, nature and life itself.
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?
I saw the ad and thought it was very fair and balanced. Of course, it might be just that you dislike hearing truths that don't coincide with your own fanatsies about the world. Whatever.