scala/scala — pull request #2964 by retronym (2013-09-19 07:34:26+00:00)
Title: Require Ant >= 1.8.0

Reportedly our build fails with Ant 1.7.1. Time to raise the
bar. Let's party like it was 2010!

Tested by temporarily setting the requirement to 1.8.5 and observing:

% ant init
Buildfile: /Users/jason/code/scala/build.xml

desired.jars.uptodate:

boot:

init:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/jason/code/scala/build.xml:216: Ant version 1.8.5 is required. You are running Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012

Review by @gkossakowski