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<h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
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<h3>3 September 2001 Ant 1.4 released !</h3>
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<h3>Ant 1.4 Beta Available !</h3>
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<p>Ant still doesn't have a Logo, but it sure deserves one. We've
put together a <a href="logos.html">page with proposed
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<p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
<p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
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<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
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<p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
be addressed.
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As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
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<li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
<li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
<li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
<li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
<li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
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It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
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requirements are being collected into a document which is available
<a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
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available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
relevant to Ant 2.0.
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Ant 1.3 has been released after going through three betas. Thanks to everyone who
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Both source and binary releases are available in zip, tarball and RPM formats.
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