RE: MDRAnt task compatibility with Ant 1.7

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sichi [mailto:jsichi@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:26 AM
> To: users@...; tfmorris@...
> Subject: Re: MDRAnt task compatibility with Ant 1.7
>
>
> I ran into a similar problem.  It turns out that the MdrTask
> class does something funny:  for each task type it knows
> about, it registers it redundantly, e.g.:
>
>     public Instantiate createInstantiate( ) {
>         return new Instantiate();
>     }
>    
>     public void addInstantiate( Instantiate subtask ) {
>         subtask.setTask( this );
>         subtasks.add( subtask );
>     }
>
> This used to be OK before ant 1.7, but ant 1.7 gets confused
> when it sees both.
>
> I forgot to log a bug for this; I wonder if it's been fixed
> in CVS yet.  I didn't feel like rebuilding MDR from the
> latest sources (especially since the old build we're using
> has been rock-solid), so I hacked it by editing the .class
> file with a hex editor and renaming the createXXX methods to
> kreateXXX.  That "fixed" it.
>
> JVS
>
> > > From: "Tom Morris" <tfmorris@...>
> > To: <users@...>
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:33:21 -0400
> > Subject: MDRAnt task compatibility with Ant 1.7
> >
> > Has anyone been successful in using the mdrant task with Apache Ant
> > 1.7?  It silently fails to create output when run with Ant
> 1.7 either
> > from the command line or under Eclipse.  (Eclipse 3.3 which
> is about
> > to be released
> > is bundling Ant 1.7.)
> >
> > Everything works fine with Ant 1.6.5, but I suspect that
> there's some
> > incompatibility in the Ant Task integration between 1.6.5
> and 1.7. Any
> > clues from anyone?  Or better yet, a version that works
> with Ant 1.7?
> >
> > Tom
> >