Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:59:53 +0100 From: Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> To: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ant good for? Message-ID: <3C7BBF09.4010709@wireless-networks.com> References: <23033.200202261608@todday>
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Jeff Dalton wrote: >I've been reading the "tools" discussion, and all I use is emacs, >jdk, and Netscape for reading the on-line documentation. The only >change I'm tempted to make is to start using ant. > Great idea. >But every time I've looked at anyone's ant script (is script >the right word?), it's seemed alarmingly complex. > Well, ant scripts are like makefile. there is small ones, and there is big ones. You can put anything in an ant script: compiling, but also regressions tests, deployment, packaging. But an ant script doesn't need to be big. >So I'm wondering whether ant does anything that would make it >worth the effort of learning to use it. > Yes. 1) it's portable (really) 2) it has an easy syntax (yes) There is only few things you can do with an Ant file that you cannot do with a makefile or a shell script, but all common task of building, packaging, testing and deploying java apps are very easy and straightforward to do. >Does it, for instance, work out the dependencies between files >to determine what needs to be recompiled and what doesn't? > I'm not sure. Cedric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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