On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jan Materne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.jsp?thread_id=23426
I don't read TSS and haven't followed the article, but Jon is the build guy at ThoughtWorks, Martin Fowler's company. Martin has already blogged[1] about the same issue and my main comment[2] is that it is true. "Complex builds need a real language" and to me the real language is Java - write tasks.
Given I am still struggling in vain to get CruiseControl up and running, I find it deeply ironic that ThoughtWorks are critiquing ant.
My ripostes would be
'Complex build systems need decent tool documentation'
and
'Build tools should ship with a valid set of subsidiary jars (like checkstyle, xerces'
'Complex build tools should come with functional tests, like say with httpunit'
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