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? Message-ID: <20020226091136.F220@uqbar.lan.scardini.com> In-Reply-To: <23144.200202261659@todday>; from jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:59:16PM %2B0000 References: <23144.200202261659@todday>
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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>; -- Christopher Elkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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