[alf-dev] Apache Ant IP request questions

[Darin Swanson <Darin_Swanson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning,

I am a committer representative on the
Eclipse board. 
Therefore I take part in the review
for proposals for Eclipse projects usage of non-epl code.

My understanding is that ALF has requested
to use Ant JARs from version 1.6.3 and ant-contrib.jar
1.6.3

I would like to know the reasons
the ALF project is looking to contribute Ant 1.6.3?
This code base is over 2 years old and
is no longer recommended to be used by Apache Ant. 
As well, with Ant 1.7.0 being put into
Orbit it would possibly seem unnecessary?

Also I am not sure what is "ant-contrib.jar 1.6.3"?
My understanding is that Ant contrib is a separate project from Apache
Ant that is hosted at SourceForge.
I believe it is either in release 0.6 or beta for 1.0.


Thank you for your time
Darins