Java 1.3

Ben Laurie ben@algroup.co.uk
Fri, 02 Jun 2000 18:39:47 +0100



"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> At 11:56 PM 6/1/00 , Paul Snively wrote:
> >http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ and I sure will!
> 
> make's syntax is so terrible that I figured any attempt from scratch would
> have to be an improvement.  I just took a look at Ant and, by using XML,
> they have succeeded at proving me wrong.  Ant make-rules look even less
> maintainable than Makefiles.  Quite an achievement!

Speaking from experience, Ant is substantially easier to maintain than
make.

Cheers,

Ben.

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