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From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: What is ant good for?
To: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
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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


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