A developer afraid of Unix?!?
Seriously though, as a Mac user myself, I can appreciate his situation. Should Ant 2
ever come in to existence, with Antidote as a full-blown GUI, it'll make the Ant
experience incredibly user-friendly - you'll be able to use MRJAppBuilder to make a
nice double-clickable version of Antidote. And the Aqua interface... ah... so
soothing :-)
While Antidote still has a lot of holes in it (at least the version included with Ant
1.3, I'm not sure about the nightly drops), it still might be worth looking into. It
might make the transition into OS X and Ant a little easier for him, especially if
he'll just be using Ant for the builds (and not actually developing any Ant scripts).
Kyle
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16/01 06:01PM >>>
Mark,
This guy does have a G4. He has OS X available on his computer but is
afraid of Unix. He is being pushed towards OS X. Anyway, I thought it
was amazing that we got ant 1.3 working at all on OS 9.
--Isaac
Mark Strasser wrote:
>
> However, the future of ant on Mac OS 9 is limited. The JDK for Mac OS 9 is
> limited to 1.1.8, and neither Sun nor Apple have any intention of getting
> Java2 running on 9. On the bright side, however, Mac OS X has a Java2 vm
> and developer tools. Tell them to buy a new G4. :)
>
> -Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Isaac Sparrow (Staff Engineer)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Ant on Mac OS 9?
>
> > "Isaac Sparrow (Staff Engineer)" wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently converted our project from a Codewarrior only build to an ant
> > > build so the rest of the developers, myself included, could use our
> > > IDE/Editor of choice and be able to build our project.
> > >
> > > Now I have everyone on board using the ant build except one lone
> > > straggler who is developing on Mac OS 9. Does anyone here have any idea
> > > how to install ant on Mac OS 9? Is it even possible?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Isaac Sparrow
> > > Staff Engineer
> > > VisiComp, Inc
> > >
> > > http://www.visicomp.com
> > > -----------------------
> >
> > Ok. Got ant installed and working for my Mac OS 9 friend. There were a
> > few Mac - java implementation type things that caused my build.xml file
> > to not work out of the box (works with win, linux, solaris, OS X ...).
> > Seems forking a new java task doesn't work on OS 9.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Isaac Sparrow
> > Staff Engineer
> > VisiComp, Inc
> >
> > http://www.visicomp.com
> > -----------------------
> > At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
> > find
> > at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the
> > computer.
--
Isaac Sparrow
Staff Engineer
VisiComp, Inc
http://www.visicomp.com
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