I considered running builds remotely but figured that ssh is pretty much everywhere so why not just execute the command remotely with the added bonus of encryption and compression?
> One of the things I am experimenting with is running Ant remotely and > building projects from remote build files. If you want a teaser for this, > try downloading this jar > http://www.apache.org/~conor/ant/lib/egg.jar > > Then run it with this commandline, passing the four arguments indicated. If > you have a copy of crimson/jaxp on your machine, you can replace the second > argument with a local file:/ url to the crimson.jar. > > java -jar egg.jar > http://www.apache.org/~conor/ant > http://www.apache.org/~conor/ant/lib/parser/crimson.jar > -f > http://www.apache.org/~conor/test.ant > > It is a little bit of fun, only works if you don't go through a proxy and > its quite slow.. If it doesn't work for you then let me know but don't lose > any sleep over it - I won't. >
