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Re: ant?
by Jean on Monday 12/Sep/2005, @01:04

Because it is bullshit.
Because it requires a JVM.
Because it makes average cases easy, some simple cases very hard and really big cases almost impossible. ;-)

More seriously, ant misses generic dependency handling which is a big drawkack, IMHO.

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Re: ant?
by Guillaume Laurent on Monday 12/Sep/2005, @03:57

and you really, really, *REALLY* don't want to manually edit build files written in xml.

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