Orangevolt ANT Tasks

5. History

Version	Date
1.3	${date.today}
1.3	${date.today}	Lars, I submitted a feature request on the support forum for the jar task to be able to take a nested fileset so that multiple files could be specified that would have the same value for version, download etc. I downloaded the source for the project and managed to implement the feature, but I couldn't get the build scripts to work to build the full set of roxes tasks. I did managed to build a subset and test that. I've attached the snippet of code to achieve this. Perhaps you could consider adding this to the project and rebuilding it. Failing that, could you send me a full build script for the roxes ant tasks? Thanks, James
1.0	2004-08-31	bugs documented in roxes ant tasks forum fixed.
1.0	2004-04-07	docs updated roxes ant tasks now works with ant 1.6.1

	2004-01-12
	2004-01-12	Another JNLP extension bug fixed. Thanks to Daniel Laird.
	2003-12-18	Thanks to James Shiell i fixed some bugs in the JNLP task.
	2003-11-47	win32.properties extended to reflect the windows and windows system directory as Ant properties.
	2003-11-26	Made a bunch of code modifications to make the tasks more handy. Task os.properties added. Task writefile removed because the functionality is always a builtin of Ant (Task concat)
	2003-11-12	Documentation updated to reflect the newly added tasks. Great news: Tasks compare, execute, call, writefile, unix.properties, unix.kde.shortcut, unix.shortcut and unix.kde.directoryshortcut added. Its time for a new release.
	2003-11-12	docs refreshed Additional property encoding to jnlp task added (proposed by R. A. Rivas Diaz). If not defined it is set to UTF-8. Antony now encapsulates the standard tasks echo and input to provide graphical user interfaces to this tasks. Find task added. The find task is able to find a file conforming to a pattern and can return parts of the file name/location into properties.
	2003-11-06	Antony added. Antony is a GUI for Ant (not an development eviroment). It can be used to create GUI setup's based ONLY on Ant make files ! Currently the GUI is mostly similar to INF file execution on windows including syntaxcolored output window. The Orangevolt Ant Tasks jar is now self executable and starts Antony. Antony is fully commandline compatible to Apache Ant (some additional customization commandline optins are available to). win32.registry and win32.shortcut now execute the win32.properties task automatically if not executed before. You dont need to execute win32.properties manually before using the win32 properties created by win32.properties when used in win32.registry or win32.shortcut.
	2003-11-05	Task properties added. this task can write a properties file. supported features are merge existing properties files (via fileset) and settings properties depending on rules (if, unless, available, isfalse, istrue rules supported).
	2003-11-01	values provided as text content will always be substituted (replaced by matching properties). this notice affects all tasks of this suite.
	2003-11-01	documentation for win32.shortcut, win32.properties and win32.registry added. win32.shortcut task added. win32.shortcut creates windows shortcut files. these files can be used to create entries in special windows folders like program menu, desktop, favorites or sendto. win32.properties task added. This task makes windows specific directories (program menu, favorites etc.) available as ant properties.
	2003-10-30	win32.registry task added. Use this task to access the windows registry.
	2003-10-23	Documentation refreshed to reflect the new features. icon parameter implemented for jstub and sfx windows excutables and sfx java executable. The icon is patched into the executables. Requested by Janek Schwarz.
	2003-10-22	jstub and sfx windows commandline substitution added. both executables can now substitute enviroment and registry values into the commandline. This feature was requested by Janek Schwarz.
	2003-10-22	Bug fixed: Thanks to Ray who informed me about the extension bug in the jnlp task. The bug was removed and the cleaned up implementation is available in version 1.2.

1.1	2003-10-10
	2003-10-15	jstub windows executable rewritten to reflect the ideas of jc duford. See jstub chapter for details. jstub windows executable can now handle command line arguments.
	2003-09-26	PreferencesTask documentation added.
	2003-09-25	PreferencesTask added. this task makes accessing java preferences (java 1.4 preferences) api a piece of cake.
	2003-09-17	major bug fixed : both sfx and jstub task now do not open a console in win32 (console less) mode.
	2003-09-12	thanks to darragh curran the jnlp output is now correct for icon element's.
	2003-09-10	thanks to darragh curran: the docs were polished to reflect the current jar file version in the examples, the examples taskdef are corrected and the jnlp task now handles the href top level attribute. furthermore the sfx unix executable stub was updated. the jnlp task now handles filesets correct. jnlptask's homepage element output fixed. sfx task mode java bug fixed: if started on windows "start /B" will be set as starting sequence. before command /C or cmd /c was set as starting sequence (which is not correct).

1.0	2003-09-08
	2003-09-08	bug fixed: sfx windows executables now working like expected when started with full or partial path. urls to ant website refreshed, docs (chapter usage) corrected. (thanx to jan.materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de).
	2003-09-04	initial release.