Steve, This sounds great! I've already selected it into my amazon wishlist.
Thank You, Anthony > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony W. Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steve Loughran" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:47 AM > Subject: Re: Ant: The Definitive Guide (Orielly) > > >> I havent seen ant:tdg yet, but as the main competitor to the book on ant > >> soon to come from Erik and me, they are a key competitor (the other is > > the > > >> on-line docs, which is why we opted not to repeat said docs*)). The book > >> was originally scheduled to come out in, um February, and has slipped a > >> couple of times. > > > >Steve, > >How soon is soon? I would expect yours and Erik's book to be the "Meyers > > - Effective C++" of ant. > > Plan is August. We are 'code complete' as of this weekend, and now the docs > are trickling through the deployment process. We should have a chapter or > two up on the web in a few days. > > One thing we still have to deal with is reincorporating laste-minute > changes in ant1.5 back into the docs; they are still happening, and it does > take effort to keep stuff in sync, even at this late stage. That'll be > ongoing right up until Ant1.5 ships. Some of those changes come from us, so > we are making life harder for ourselves just to make sure that Ant1.5 is up > to scratch when we ship. Mostly the changes will be we can strip out the > 'this is broken, here is a workaround' type, but you never know, there may > be a surprise or two waiting for us. > > -steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
