perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Chris Welti wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Why don't you just add a check of the Ant version to the scripts and only
> print the default values if the version is below 1.7.0?
Very nice idea. If its possible to do this.
> Chris
>
> Maciej Glowiak wrote:
> > 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