Thank you.
On 2010-02-08, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
> OK. The build tools in perspective should go to a separate web
> site. Maybe one day I will create a blog.
8-)
On the one hand you are bound to forget tools - I didn't see Apache
Buildr in your draft nor jam, gosling, scons, jmake ...
An
Hi,
on behalf of the Ant development team, I have the pleasure to announce
the release of Ant 1.8.0.
Some of the features included in the new release are :
* Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only
defined inside a target, sequential block or similar environment.
Dominique Devienne wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
I agree its time to move away from "make without make's wrinkles" and
prefer a description that says what Ant is rather than what it is not.
Your draft does so pretty well.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>> I agree its time to move away from "make without make's wrinkles" and
>> prefer a description that says what Ant is rather than what it is not.
>> Your draft does so pretty well.
>
> Thanks
+1 from me too, and
Hi,
I have counted 6 +1s and no other votes for the release of ant 1.8.0.
I will proceed with the release in the next hours.
Regards,
Antoine
Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
Hi,
this vote cancels and replaces the vote started on Friday. The vote of
Friday is cancelled because of a
bug affecti
Jesse, thanks for your comments.
I will check-in changes to our index page this evening after doing the
Ant 1.8.0 release. I will take into account both your comments and
Stefan's comments.
Regards,
Antoine
Jesse Glick wrote:
Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
Ant is a Java library and command l
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
I agree its time to move away from "make without make's wrinkles" and
prefer a description that says what Ant is rather than what it is not.
Your draft does so pretty well.
Thanks
Personally I don't see any reason to compare Ant with any other tool
from the same domain
Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
Ant is a Java library and command line tool.
command-line tool
^
build of java applications
Java
^
tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run java applications.
allowing users to ... Java
^^ ^
non java applications
non-Jav
On 2010-02-07, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote:
> The self description of Ant on the home page might not have changed
> since the first release in 2000. I have just written a draft for a
> new version (see below).
I agree its time to move away from "make without make's wrinkles" and
prefer a descrip
