It's looking like Ant is a complete shoo-in (shoe-in?) after all. After MUCH searching through the search engines I have found very little to compete with ant. Perhaps this helps to explain why it took off so quickly.
Simon >-----Original Message----- >From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:37 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: Re: Research question > > >Nope, Ant is a complete shoe-in! :) > >James Duncan Davidson (the creator of Ant) spun off another tool called >Amber, but I don't believe its being actively developed - >although if it is >I'd love to hear about it. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:18 PM >Subject: RE: Research question > > >We already use JBuilder and I have AntRunner working just >fine. My issue is >not against the IDE's, they do seem to give most of our developers >productivity benefits, but I want to have a separate build >tool for those >times when you can't use an IDE: integration builds, over >night builds etc. >My 110% preference is for ant, but I'm trying to at least show >that there >were other tools to pick from and that ant wasn't a complete shoo-in. > >Simon > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com >Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:18 PM >>To: Ant Users List >>Subject: Re: Research question >> >> >> >>make, that java port of make and IDEs. IDEs are the >>alternative you will >>probably have to deal with the most, "why use a command line >>tool, when my >>IDE does everything"? You can address that by showing how most >>modern IDEs >>(all but jbuilder) host ant, giving developers a choice of IDEs >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Ant User mailing list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:39 AM >>Subject: Research question >> >> >>I'm writing a proposal for using ant internally as part of >our standard >>build process and I am having difficulty finding information on the >>alternatives to ant. I have tried many different searches on >the mighty >>Google, but with less than wonderful success. The few that I >>found seem to >>mostly have withered and died and a few even suggest switching >>to ant! :-) >> >>Can folks on this list point me at a few other tools that I >>can list in my >>document. Specifically, I am looking for build tools that are >>designed for >>Java systems (hence "make" doesn't make the cut). >> >>Simon >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com >>Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
