perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Hi Loukik,

There is a problem with Ant. Using Ant 1.6.5 our scripts had to print 
default values (those inside [ ] ), but since ver. 1.7.0 Ant does it as 
well. So, using Ant 1.7.0 we have:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 Question Q [default]: [default]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (one printed by script, second one by Ant)

which of course may cause some problems or misunderstanding (see Mario's 
e-mail with LS feedback on JRA1 Mailing List).

Using long default values (usually paths) questions become difficult to 
understand, like:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
[input] Enter the path where you want to install the service [/home/mac/
projects/perfsonar/new-structure/trunk/webapps]: [/home/mac/projects/per
fsonar/new-structure/trunk/webapps]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

But if we remove printing default values in our scripts at all, somebody 
using old Ant 1.6.x won't see default values at all, like:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Question Q:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, there is a question whether to force users to use Ant 1.7.0 what we 
did with Java some time ago (1.4 -> 1.5) and let ant print default 
values for us. That's a question to Release Team, but also to potential 
users who will need to upgrade Ant to 1.7.0 (I think some of them 
already had it).

By the way, Ant 1.7.0 fixed bug which we marked now as TO BE DONE LATER 
--  See:  https://bugzilla.perfsonar.net/show_bug.cgi?id=123

Maciej


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