On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:14:39AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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... >
Thanks. I located its home page just after: 1. java 2. over apache OK for work, not the direction I'm going at home. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
