Todd J. wrote: > Have you ever considered using Ant for building the Jav3d.org codebase?
Yes, for about 30 seconds. I find Ant to be pretty useless for development of any decent size project. Some of the things I really dislike about it: - Conditional compilation. Not everything in a directory should be compiled. - Ordered compilation to enforce good design (no circular references) - Lack of multiple language support - particularly code that uses C/C++ which already has make systems in place - No custom control of the build process - for example building JAR files with subsets of packages. - Dependence on yet another unreadable language (XML) - Requirement to write compilable code in order to extend the development environment - No need to download yet another tool to compile code. In short, I think Ant sucks majorly as a serious development environment tool. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
