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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:26:08 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-A re-write of the [make(1)] system in [Java] without the dependancy
on the shell. Part of the [Apache] project.
+A re-write of the [make(1)] system in [Java] without the dependency
on the shell.[1]
Part of the [Apache] project.
The difference between [Ant] and [make(1)] is approximately 30 years of SoftwareEngineering theory and practice. It uses "build.xml" files rather than [MakeFile]s, has a much wider range of built-in targets than make and is extensible using [Java] classes rather than shell scripts.
http://ant.apache.org/
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+[1] because a dependency on a java runtime environment is much more manageable than on a shell, right?
