David Weintraub schrieb am 12.06.2009 um 12:22:52 (-0400): > Ant and Make do two things that Batch scripts cannot do: > > 1). Dependency Matrix calculations > 2). Build Avoidance
Good summary! > Now to answer other questions: Why XML for Ant? > > XML is a very flexible tool since you can easily have entities > embedded in other entities in a way that's easy to parse. Most people nowadays ignore the physical structure of an XML document, i.e. they ignore external entities, and also parameter entities. But they're damn useful. > I use VIM which does syntax highlighting and automatic indentations > which greatly helps me create my build.xml file. Me too. Just discovered "dit" and "dat". See ":help it", ":h at", ":h tag-blocks". But you probably knew this. Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
