Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:59:16 GMT From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ant good for? Message-ID: <23144.200202261659@todday> In-Reply-To: Brad Cox's message of Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:40:37 -0500
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> >So I'm wondering whether ant does anything that would make it > >worth the effort of learning to use it. > > > >Does it, for instance, work out the dependencies between files > >to determine what needs to be recompiled and what doesn't? > > Yes, but that's rarely useful since jikes handles dependencies > internally. Ant is a portable alternative to unix make. Of course, > make is alarmingly complex too. ;) But make doesn't determine the dependencies: you have to list at least the direct ones yourself. Does any actually work them out? -- Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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