Gant 1.4.0 released

Russel Winder has anounced over the Groovy User list that Gant 1.4.0 has been released. Here are his notes on this new version:

There are a lot of internal changes removing assumptions, correcting bugs etc.  There are also a couple of changes that mean that tools and target sets have a different initialization, effectively an API change. Also the deprecated task closure has actually been removed. Other highlights are from the release notes:

• Remove the assumption that all instances of a given class have the same metaclass.
• Fixed the method search so that the GantBuilder object referred, to by ant is checked for all closures declared in a target. However, this raises issues, cf. GANT-49.
• Correct Execute.shell method so it works on Windows without Cygwin or MSYS. cf. GANT-38.
• Correct all the tools and target sets so that a GantBinding rather than a Binding is passed. NB This is a breaking API change for anyone who has written their own tools or target sets.
• Add groovyc taskdef to the GantBuilder instance so the user doesn't have to. GANT-19 relates.
• Tidied up the tool and target set classes to ensure that both "<<" and "** *" operators work correctly.
• Stop the binding entry target from being redefined.
• Remove the task entry in the binding. It was deprecated and advertised as being removed in v1.3.
• Added a new Gant constructor to allow precompiled scripts to be used. Provided by Peter Ledbrook, cf. GANT-47.
• Fixes:  GANT-19, GANT-32, GANT-38, GANT-42, GANT-45, GANT-46.
• Workaround provided for GANT-49, but a final fix is still needed.

PS  The observant amongst you will spot that Canoo reports one unit test failure.  However, Bamboo and Buildbot report no test failures, and I get no failures testing manually.  If anyone can spot what the problem is and provide a patch, I will release 1.4.1 with the fix.  And therecould be a small prize in it :-)