is it possible to add ant-1.7.x to epel?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:48:13PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> For ant I'm not that sure if packaging a newer version is wise or not,  
> as I'm not familiar enough with it. But I tend to say "that way lie  
> dragons", as it's hard to draw the line where to stop with it --  
> otherwise we soon get request to include openoffice3 or kde4 in EPEL...

I don't view it as an issue, as long as 
* the upgrade path is right, that is the EPEL package is updated by the 
  corresponding  RHEL/EPEL package in the next RHEL/EPEL release, 
  which implies some coordination with RHEL/EPEL maintainers.
* the packages are stable enough for inclusing in EPEL, which is not the 
  case for the 2 you mentionned, in my opinion, but is certainly so for 
  ant17.

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Pat