+1
Ant is a cross platform scripting tool that is well supported and used
for a lot of tasks.
Well worth considering as a key tool in your toolbox.
Not that hard to learn and has a lot of extensions that save you writing
a lot of scripts.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/tasksoverview.html#scm
http://ant.apache.org/external.html
On 06/02/2013 10:31 AM, Wayne Fay wrote:
I guess most people simply use the Ant plugin for that kind of task.
The issue I have with Ant is that the project is far too complicated as it
is; a newbie who starts hacking already has to learn Maven, m2e and how it
influences Eclipse projects, all the libraries that I'm pulling in; it's a
pretty steep learning curve already. I'm trying to cut down on technologies
you need to know to start hacking on my project, and Ant looks like it could
be avoided.
Most of us on this list are simply too pragmatic to take that position
against using Ant in your Maven build. Ant is treated as pretty much a
first-class citizen in Maven -- you can even write Maven plugins in
Ant. I would be surprised if you hired someone who had zero Ant
experience, and it is simple to pick up (and useful for future use)
for newbies.
Wayne
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