[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
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