----- Original Message ----- From: "Bevan Arps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:17 Subject: Re: Ant for J#?
> > Currently Ant is a superb tool for automating software builds as well as > deployment and intranet documentation. This is in very large part due to > it's ability to handle more than just "Pure Java". yeah, it can deploy anything. > I for one would be hugely in favour of some kind of "generic" compiler task > that can be configured (say through an external property file) for almost > any compiler at all. Unfortunately, my own Java skills aren't up to writing > such a task so I've kept quiet. I am not sure that a generic 'any language' compiler is appropriate. There is <apply> if you want to try that; the problems for a generic tool are -dependency rules vary so much from language to language (inputs, outputs, when/how stuff is resolved) -parameter option sets vary so much There is some work going on towards a <cpp> task which support multiple back end compilers, but will understand the basic process for creating CPP->OBJ files, linking, .h based dependencies etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
