RE: just not getting it

2003-08-14 Thread Donald Strong
Brilliant synopsis Laird, Having written build systems in both Make and Ant I throughly agree with you. Two things I would add, for Gregory's benefit. The first is one reason that Make just doesn't work as well with java as it does with other languages is that the dependencies in java are not ob

Re: just not getting it

2003-08-14 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:44 am, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Would someone please explain how to handle the simple example of a > directory/package tree full of .java source files to be built into a JAR? > Once I have that toehold, I think I can start learning the rest. > Here is a complete and relati

Re: just not getting it

2003-08-14 Thread Rich Wagner
encourage people to take the time to learn about Ant features. I recently switched from using "make" to Ant, and I think Ant is far better... Hope this helps, Rich Wagner From: Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: