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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:11:36 -0800
From: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com>
To: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What is ant good for?
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:59:16PM +0000, Jeff Dalton wrote:
> > >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?

Yes. <http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html>

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Christopher Elkins

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