On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Michael Stanley wrote:
> > And don't say "ant is cross platform, make is not" because that just isn't
> > true. Was someone just bored with the wheel and wanted to reinvent it?
>
> Ant is more than a cross platform make utility. Ant is platform independent,
> which means alot more than cross platform. Ant is a make utility geared to meeet
> the needs of Java. Java is "Write once run anywhere" and so is Ant. It is also
> specifically made to meet the build requirements of Java code, capable of
> anything from creating Jars to Javadocs. Its very easy to learn and its high
> modularity makes it very easy to expand.
I guess this is an important distinction to some people. I'm not a
purist; the JVM is written in C, so none of us can claim to be purists ;)
> Ant also goes further than make by adapting to XML for data representation and I
> assume there is no need for me to go into the benefits of that :)
Once again, standard data representation as opposed to problem-specific
data representation is an important distinction to some people.
What would really be nice would be if there were some kind or translator
that could convert a GNU Makefile into Ant build script and vice versa. Is
this on the radar screen Ant devleopers?
I have all kinds of problems using new versions of Tomcat (and someone
said that they are suprised at how few people try the milestone builds /
betas) and many of them come from problems with Ant. So I think Ant is
actually _preventing_ people from getting the most out of Tomcat. (just an
opinion: no flame intended!)
Many many programs that use autoconf are out there in OSS. I feel like we
aren't leveraging our own past.
> My 2 cents
> Michael Stanley
>
And only mine as well, summarized by "Stand on The Shoulders of Giants"
Nick
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