[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I know distutils well but don't know anything about Ant except that it >is a build >tool from Apache project. > >Could it possible be better or as good as distutils? >(There are extensions for Python.) > >Chris > > > Hello, In my Java code I use ant extensively to organise files, run code, unit testing, upload war files, make my setup executables (commercial app with a single click install kinda thing), tag in my source repos, etc. For this it is excellent, using it for Python; I don't think it will fly. There is a lot of handy stuff that is there in ant for Java and Java programmers can easily add in extra ant tasks if they have something custom they wish to. In addition getting an open-source community to accept anything written in Python is an uphill battle - not worth the grief <make way for Captain Toungue-In-Cheek>!!
Anyways, I see a lot of requests on the ant mailing where people try to extend ant fast what it was designed for - this is the source of the majority of the complaints about ant. Here's a good link that I refer to when I find myself swearing about ant being inflexible or clunky: http://ant.apache.org/ant_in_anger.html However anyone up for Maven?? This is a build tool with a different philosophy than most others. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Benn Senior Automation Engineer Cenix BioScience BioInnovations Zentrum Tatzberg 46 D-01307 Dresden Germany Tel : +49 (0)351 4173 154 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cenix Website : http://www.cenix-bioscience.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list