On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Same argument applies to maven. Between maven and ant, you're covering a > _heck_ of a lot of java community builds. >
The way I see it, ant and maven are very similar tools, I just see ant as assembly language while Maven is C. > >> Are you really going to write a specialized ant task just for iterating >> over a bunch of other ant tasks? Are you really going to write a >> specialized ant task for conditionals every time? People don't do this, >> they use ant contrib's conditionals and loops or the macro task. This leads >> to the hell I've mentioned. Anyone have a link to a hellish build.xml for >> example? I can't use any from my current job as they aren't allowed to be >> distributed. >> > > The existence of a hellish build.xml is about as useful as the existence of > a hellish python file. i.e.: completely useless hearsay and anecdote. > Really? I deal with hellish ant builds on a daily basis, I'm surprised you call this hearsay. I'm not seeing this as a flaw in ant, by the way: reusing my analogy above, ant is assembly language. Assembly language will always be extremely verbose because it's low level. This is precisely the strength and the weakness of ant. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
