Oh, I thoguht you meant Ant, which adds its runtime classpath to the compilation classpath you specify making "it compiled once, it'll run anywhere" even less true.
On 8/15/09, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/15 Peter da Silva <[email protected]>: >> The bestest make replacement ever would be one that uses XML and requires >> a different version of Java than the program you're building! > > Except that it doesn't actually use an XML parser but some odd XML > hack, so if you hand-craft your Makefile.xml, it'll fail eight times > out of ten with an obscure error message because you dared to use > something that's not in the tiny subset of XML that it actually > supports. > > Such as, oh I don't know, line breaks inside tags, or more than one > space between attributes or something. (Or whitespace between tags.) > > Cheers, > Philip > -- > Philip Newton <[email protected]> > >
