Re: Ant rant

2000-11-13 Thread Nick Bauman
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it works out-of-box with jikes 1.12, then awesome! (I've had problems with 1.12 because of the multibyte encoding changes between 1.11 and 1.12) I use it with jikes most of the time. If you are on unix, you can use an .antrc and

Re: Ant rant

2000-11-12 Thread Michael Stanley
And don't say "ant is cross platform, make is not" because that just isn't true. Was someone just bored with the wheel and wanted to reinvent it? Ant is more than a cross platform make utility. Ant is platform independent, which means alot more than cross platform. Ant is a make utility

RE: Ant rant

2000-11-12 Thread Nick Bauman
efile format for my personal projects and when I got a hold of Ant, I was very relieved! - r p.s. i don't mean to trivialize the Makefile stuff. It's funky! -Original Message- From: Nick Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: November 12, 2000 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Ant rant

2000-11-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Nick Bauman wrote: I have all kinds of problems using new versions of Tomcat (and someone said that they are suprised at how few people try the milestone builds / betas) and many of them come from problems with Ant. So I think Ant is actually _preventing_ people from getting the most out of

Re: Ant rant

2000-11-12 Thread person
ya see below The memory management on PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. -- Linus Torvalds On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Nick Bauman wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: {snip} I'll take "doesn't pay the rent to know that" as probably the bottom line