Re: build ideas

[Brian Jones]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> Personally, I don't like Ant. It's not *free* software either.
> 
> There's not much you can do with Ant that can't be done with Make
> (given a little thought).

Last I checked this is quite true.
 
> Ant is also very Java centric, Classpath has a lot of C (and C++ if we
> include the GCJ stuff). Make is perfect for those languages.

I think Ant could only be useful for Java.  I would not want to use it
for making shared libraries.
 
> Brian, would you like to check out the Paperclips and Classpathx make
> files? They use the the @filelist convieniance to facilitate better
> make control over java projects.

I'll do that.
-- 
Brian Jones <address@hidden>