[Biojava-dev] jUnit classes for biojava-live

[David Huen]

On Monday 28 Oct 2002 3:55 pm, Thomas Down wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0000, Keith James wrote:
> > >>>>> "David" == David Huen <smh1008@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >     David> Version is :- Ant version 1.3 compiled on March 2 2001
> >
> >     David> Error is:- /home/david/biocvs/biojava-live/build.xml:79:
> >     David> Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Available doesn't
> >     David> support the "type" attribute
> >
> > Ack. Sorry - I had been trying to avoid syntax which isn't supported
> > by older Ants. I guess I messed up there. The Ant manual is pretty
> > good, but it doesn't always mention syntax changes between versions.
>
> In this case, it's probably not /too/ dreadful a solution
> to just remove those type= attributes.
>
> However, that said, I'm wondering if we should just say
> `For BioJava 1.3 you need ANT 1.5 or later'.  I've never had
> any problems when upgrading from one version of ANT to another --
> I'd be curious to know if anyone out there has had trouble.
>
I've upgraded to Ant 1.5.1 and it's fine now.  Thanks.  It appears to be a 
version thing but then my version was quite a way behind current.

Regards,
David