At 12:00 20/12/00 +0530, Sreedhar, Dantam wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to "ant". I am trying to find out whether ant is useful for our
>project or not. Here are the requirements for our project.
>
>1. Our project involves the coding in multiple languages. These are Java,
>Visual C++, Visual Basic and perl. Can ant build visual c++ and visual basic
>programs? If yes, please explain me how to?
>2. Our project has two major sub-projects
>a. windows based
>b. unix based
>Our project is using single repository "CVS" running on Unix.
yep.
>My question is, Is it possible to control the build at the OS level? That
>is developers working on windows should build one sub-project and
> developers working on unix should build another sub-project.
yep - no problem there.
Personally I would advise using Ant for java parts (and perhaps any
manipulation of perl parts and post-processing of c/vb stuff). However I
would recommend that you continue using your existing tools (VC++/VB) for
their respective domains and have ant called as a post-compile step in VC++
(not sure if there is an equivelent for VB).
Cheers,
Pete
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