Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:40:37 -0500 From: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu> To: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ant good for? Message-ID: <p05101401b8a16a6b902b@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <23033.200202261608@todday> References: <23033.200202261608@todday>
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At 4:08 PM +0000 2/26/02, 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.
>
>But every time I've looked at anyone's ant script (is script
>the right word?), it's seemed alarmingly complex.
>
>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. ;)
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