Re: 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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