On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:32:42 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: >> > is it easy to create custom tasks in Ant >> with scripting languages, it is easy. >Really??
Writing custom tasks is easy. >Make is essentially a declarative language where the make engine deduces >from the available facts (file timestamps) and rules what commands to >execute. Ant is and does the same; where the defaults fail, you can use <dependset>s. >Ant is a much more conventional approach, more like custom >shell-scripting of commands to perform a build. Not in my POV. make is the tool that exposes the underlying shell in a pretty unportable way (one reason why such things like autoconf/make have been invented). BTW, the only REAL declarative language I know in wide use is SQL. All the others (Prolog, XSLT, Ant, ...) are functional under a shallow declarative crusting. And even with SQL, you're lost w/o knowing the query plans if you work in real-world high-preformance environments. Ciao, Jürgen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
