At 10:07 AM 5/18/01 -0700, Alan George wrote: >IMHO, Ant should solve this problem.
luckily your not a committer then eh? >This kind of thing I have seen many times. yup. >If it's not meant to solve this problem, what value does it have. It was initially designed to be a cross platform build process for tomcat, nothing more. It grew into something that could build small to medium java programs (or any extensible build processes - ala basic content generation). Hopefully Ant2 will be capable of doing large scale builds of any sort (ie not java specific). A pattern that emerged in make for handwritten build files was to have at least three make files that are all included together. 1. A rules makefile 2. A data makefile 3. A config makefile (1) coresponds to the notion of "templates" (2) could theoretically be anything (in make I used to use the equivelent of flat properties files) but hopefully by Ant2 it will just be declarations of properties and datatypes plus maybe a few "actions"/"tasks". (3) is similar to results generated by autoconf or to hand maintained ~/.ant.properties that are starting to pop up in projects. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
