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.
Rule 1: Use the latest 1.6.X version of Ant. Anything older is very
annoying.
I think it actually comes with most modern Java installable
packages/tarballs/exe's. I know that I have not had to install it for
quite a while now.
Here are some nice: "Hello world" like tutorials on it:
http://blog.ideoplex.com/software/java/
The advantage to Ant is that everybody uses it. It also does proper
dependency analysis (make does too, but not the way most people use it).
It also copes with i18n since it is XML.
It's a little too verbose for my taste, but I use it anyway since it is
the de facto standard for Java.
If you have a mixed project and don't have an aversion to Python, I
would suggest something like scons.
-a
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