Re: [Paperclips-discuss] adding ant support to paperclips

[Fabrício Matheus Gonçalves]

I could write a ant build, if you could commit that.
I think ant is a great tool, even dont been gnu.

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 20:32, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> "Stephane M" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi there, 
> >  
> > I'm having a hard time building paperclips under windows 
> > and was wondering if proding ANT has ever been considered. 
> > It takes care of path translations when invoking javac 
> > and is a bit more intuitive for people who are not so 
> > familiar with make. 
> 
> Yes... sorry about windows builds.
> 
> ANT has been considered but decided against. Paperclips is a GNU
> project and thus we want to stick to GNU tools.
> 
> To be _brutally_ honest, I don't actually care much that it doesn't
> build on windows very easily. You should use a GNU OS.
> 
> Having said that the automakejar script should be portable to cygwin
> but I've so many commitments at the moment I don't have time to fix
> the problem (which I am aware of).
>