Viner, David wrote:
personally, i love the build scripts. i am woefully under-educated about
ant, but i am fully capable of typing "./build.sh" or "build". i know it
sounds lame, but i like the simplicity and clarity of a script called
"build".
dave
Yes, except getting that to run across platforms and OS and OS versions
and differing environments and installations is why ant was developed.
Just as Java shields people from having to deal with memory allocation,
ant shields you to a great degree from having to deal with the enormous
variety of installation contexts. I used to really like 'make' a lot,
but getting it to run in four or five different places could be difficult.
ant is really not that difficult to use. I went through that "don't want
to learn a new thing" stage with it too, but if you're developing in Java
it's really worth it.
Murray
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