I've never used VSS, so I'll take your word for it. I hear
it's a crummy
SCM tool. Why do people use it? Believe me, I wonder how the hell
StarTeam, which sucks compared to Perforce or even CVS IMNSHO, got
entrenched at where I work. Happened before my time.
That's exactly why people
Cruise Control has been improved over the last year or so. Release 2.x is
quite good and incorporates xml configuration files and the ability to
integrate with your ant build.xml files with little or no modification to
those build files necessary.
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From: Steve
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From: Scott Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 15:32
Subject: RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]
The .NET tasks aren't necessarily interactive, or controlling
GUIs or
I've intentionally sensationalized the subject. Don't be offended.
Why use Ant for things like telnet, VSS, .NET, looping
scripts, etc.? I'm
all for Ant as a build tool and tool for general
development-related Java
stuff like deploying apps or running command line,
non-interactive,
-Original Message-
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
Some people want Ant to do everything (or want to do everything from
within Ant), in hopes of achieving portability perfection in a
cross-platform world, even at the expense of horrible hacks in custom
-Original Message-
From: Jon Skeet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
In the build procedure at work, due to historical reasons I
*only* use Ant for VSS work - simply because it's much better at
getting the job done than anything else is, and *much* better
than hand labelling lots of
Scott Stirling wrote:
tools out there like Flux. Would that appropriate for scheduling builds
either from Ant or around Ant? How do others automate Ant builds in
cross-platform environments? Cron on UNIX/AT on WIndows?
anthill, cruisecontrol. AT sucks.
I haven't tried AntHill, but a
I've intentionally sensationalized the subject. Don't be offended.
Why use Ant for things like telnet, VSS, .NET, looping scripts, etc.? I'm
all for Ant as a build tool and tool for general development-related Java
stuff like deploying apps or running command line, non-interactive, Java
tools.
Scott:
I think you are forgetting why developers choose Ant consistently for their
build environments...
1)it is truly portable..I can plunk my build.xml into a different
development environment with no ill effect ..can you say the same for ANY of
your platform specific tools..Can they read and
Hi,
I've been using Ant for a few years for all the reasons you listed below.
My question isn't why use Ant? -- but more like at what point should one
admit Ant's limitations and augment it?
Cygwin is free and kinda lightweight; UNIX is everywhere. That's why I
usually wrap a lot of heavy-duty
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From: Scott Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 18:49
Subject: RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]
Hi,
Cygwin is free and kinda lightweight; UNIX is everywhere.
but
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