Drew Davidson wrote:
Maybe the intent is to motivate you to buy a book on Ant - the JBoss principle of making crappy documentation available for free, so that you'll get sucked in and then have to pay for something better. I think somebody wrote one on Ant a while ago... ;-)Great, just try to find it in
http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html
Oh, it's in "Optional Tasks": what does that mean? Only with the ant optional jar? How do I know someone will have that who tries to use my build file? Why is it optional? Which Ant developer made the arbitrary decision that this "echoproperties" gem should be "optional" instead of "core"?
The documentation is IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE. I wish that I'd saved myself the time and effort to write this because Ant's documentation was written and organized by a 4 year old. Thanks for making me angrier.
Yeah, I hear that lizard cover one from O'Reilly is where it's at! :)
Maybe you folks downloading Ant over dialup will have noticed that its a pretty large download... thanks to Appendix E of JDwA being added to the distribution. JDwA is way past its prime right now, and if the Ant team wanted to simply HTMLify our book and make it the built-in documentation I'd be all for it, though it'd need a lot of updating to account for the new features. Steve is working on the 2nd edition as we speak. It's a struggle with me.... do I spend my time on writing a book or improving the built-in stuff. What is better for the community?
Erik
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