Stefano Marsili wrote:
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> Hi everybody,
> I'm really no Ant expert, but I'm working on a project
> that might be of interest to this thread.
> It defines an expression language that extends
> Ant's property expansion. At the moment the language
> is limited and is still subject to heavy cha
Gilles Scokart wrote:
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> You should maybe have a look to buildr.
>
I did, and also raven, guilder, gant, gradle, graven and more. The thing is,
Ant is the de-facto standard, with the largest community. If we want to
finally have a system that is easy to understand and yet can build JEE
projec
Dominique Devienne-2 wrote:
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> But while I agree that having a true scripting language for Ant would
> help (OO, prototype-based, or functional, leaning towards the latter
> for Ant myself), I think it's important to remember than good builds
> are *declarative* in nature. Using a pure language
I've read this thread and would like to maybe try and take this discussion
elsewhere.
The way I see it is that Ant and Maven came to being in order to simplify
building projects. The philosophy (as I see it) was either "create an xml
file with a few lines calling some tasks" or "create an xml wit
