> From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 October 2002 15:01
> One suggestion for a project should it suit someone that seems just apt > for here (and I think there is an existing codebase on sourceforge) is > language extensions/support for ant. > > For those of you not familiar with ant jakarta.apache.org/ant. Ant is a > lot more pleasant to use than Makefiles. While its focus is Java > currently, there is support for other languages being developed > elsewhere. Hopefully one day it will be mostly out of the box. > > So you say "Gee I'm a C man...what does ant do for me"... ever paste a > patch for a make file? Don't you love that "use tab not spaces" > error... Ant is a painful build tool but about 99% less painful than > make when it comes to non-simple things. C/C++/D could gain a lot from > it! We are aware of Ant. So much so that we used it as a _hypothetical_ candidate for hosting tools under the Commons umbrella. See the STATUS file. Sander
