Re: ant VS make

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 23:32 +0200, Daniele Menozzi wrote: > Hi all, I've always used make for my java projects, but recently I tried > ant. It seems interesting, but it has a huge drawback: it is really slower > than make. There is a replacement project gantt that is a lot faster, but doesn't sup

RE: ant VS make

2005-10-17 Thread Martin Vlk
>From the Ant Web page: Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles. Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author couldn't live

Re: ant VS make

2005-10-17 Thread David N. Welton
Daniele Menozzi wrote: > Hi all, I've always used make for my java projects, but recently I tried > ant. It seems interesting, but it has a huge drawback: it is really slower > than make. > So theese are my questions: do ant give me some important advantages that > make doesn't? What tool do you u

ant VS make

2005-10-16 Thread Daniele Menozzi
Hi all, I've always used make for my java projects, but recently I tried ant. It seems interesting, but it has a huge drawback: it is really slower than make. So theese are my questions: do ant give me some important advantages that make doesn't? What tool do you use? Thank you all! Menoz