title: ant.echo doesn't output anything
body: <p>I've installed Gradle and am trying a tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>My problemi is that
  ant.echo doesn't print out anything</p>
  
  <pre><code>task helloWorld {
  
      doLast {
  
          println 'This is printed out'
          ant.echo(message: 'This is not printed out')
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gradle -v outputs:</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <h2>Gradle 4.3</h2>
  
  <pre><code>Build time:   2017-10-30 15:43:29 UTC
  Revision:     c684c202534c4138b51033b52d871939b8d38d72
  
  Groovy:       2.4.12
  Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015
  JVM:          1.8.0_131 (Oracle Corporation 25.131-b11)
  OS:           Windows 10 10.0 x86
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I haven't installed Ant but I see that it comes with Gradle.
  So what am I missing?</p>