Sorry to intrude. The cross platform comment on bash triggered me. My students use a bash shell on Windows. It is included, I think, in the git download for Windows.
/Niels Greetings Niels Müller Larsen Senior Lecturer IBA Kolding Bachelor of Web Development Program > On 5 Mar 2018, at 17.54, Norman Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> wrote: > > Dave Pawson <dave.paw...@gmail.com> writes: >> I stopped at "you don't have to understand it" Norm? >> ... rude words. > > Apologies. No disrespect intended. > >> I got as far as ant for builds. I can understand most of that. >> Bash script... similar? Maybe >> gradle? Wozzat. >> >> Why make it deeper than needs be? > > Well…I’m not sure I agree that it’s deeper than it needs to be. > I’ve been building toolchains for ages: make, ant, bash, perl, > ruby, python, sbt, etc. etc. etc. > > I settled on Gradle because of the advantages I outlined in that > posting: it’s significantly better than ant for dealing with Maven and > for extensibility; it’s cross platform (unlike bash); it’s relatively > easy to install on most platforms (unlike make, perl, etc.); and it > transparently deals with a whole lot of the backend infrastructure. > > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> | The finest amusements are the most > http://nwalsh.com/ | pointless ones.--Jacques Chardonne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
