In several of the papers I've read on using Ant (specifically Ant in Anger and the
short tutorial on Ant in the Cactus subproject), a "build" directory is included in
the "ideal" directory structure. Build, as far as I can tell, is used a temporary
holding place for source files while Ant is compiling them. Right now the scripts I'm
creating make use of this; however, I can't explain why, and my supervisors are asking
"why?" So I'll propose the question to the list - why copy source files to a
temporary directory instead of compiling them straight from the source directory?
Kyle
