Not enamoured of waf; seems too complex/terse a language, feels like
reading Erlang while doing JS. I see why you need it to build node,
which is, after all, built in C. But to build external projects after
node is in place?

I really like jake's syntax, very much. It just doesn't have (a)
enough built-in functions; (b) good separation between functions and
tasks/targets.

On Feb 2, 5:58 am, Juraj Vitko <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm also looking for a new build tool (Ant is what I currently use,
> and it's so 2001).
>
> Then I remembered that the proper way to go about this is to first
> check the Node's wiki Modules page on Github, section "build and
> deployment":https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-build-and-deployment
>
> Also, there's the node-waf tool (installed with Node), used AFAIK to
> build native libs for Node, but should be pretty usable for anything.
> You can see the grammar 
> here:http://docs.waf.googlecode.com/git/apidocs_16/index.html
>  (I'm just about to check this out more closely, so I might be wrong.)
>
> J.
>
> On Jan 25, 11:02 am, deitch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Are there any active projects for an ant-like build.xml system using
> > native node?
>
> > I have a number of projects that require some sort of "when complete,
> > run a build process". In my early years, it was all make/nmake/gmake,
> > then ant/build.xml, which is much cleaner.
>
> > But with node, and building JS projects, why should I depend on Java
> > to build them? Much nicer to have some build.json that runs off node
> > to do my build. node can do everything ant can, or close to it.
>
> > I have some stuff hacked together, but if there is some standard, love
> > to hear about it before I spend more time.
>
> > Anything out there?

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