Kepler

ant task fails under Window.

bash-3.2$ svn co https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/modules/build-area
...
bash-3.2$ cd build-area
bash-3.2$ ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on June 27 2008
bash-3.2$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.2 newton 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
bash-3.2$ ant task
Buildfile: build.xml

task:

clean:
[delete] Deleting: c:\tmp\cxh\src\kepler\build-area\target\kepler-tasks.jar

BUILD FAILED
c:\tmp\cxh\src\kepler\build-area\build.xml:197: The following error occurred while executing this line:
c:\tmp\cxh\src\kepler\build-area\kepler-tasks.xml:6: Unable to delete file c:\tmp\cxh\src\kepler\build-area\target\kepler-tasks.jar

Total time: 0 seconds
bash-3.2$

The problem is that Windows is a toy operating system with a toy file
system that does not allow the deletion of open files. I think Unix
had this solved in the 1970's :-)

I'm not sure about a workaround here, since ant is a java process and
kepler-tasks.jar is in the CLASSPATH.

If we had tests of the build system, presumably this bug would have been caught.