begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 09:54:05AM -0800: > I've been made aware at work of ANT, described as an XML build tool that > replaces make. I'd like to experiment with it. Google is inconclusive, > and besides, I always want the collective wisdom of the list anyway. > > Anyone able to remark on ANT or recommend one or another approach to > learning it?
Ant is built on Java, so you need a decent JVM. It's primarily designed to work mostly with Java, and you generally extend it with Java. The online documentation is an important thing to bookmark. The O'Reilly & Associates book "Ant, The Definitive Guide" is quite useful. My recommendation would be to start small and build up your build.xml scripts from scratch the first time. On no account look at NetBeans generated build.xml files... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
