it's possible to call ant using native process though. so you could fall
back on those few cases that ant is required.
On Feb 17, 2016 10:50 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

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> On 2/17/16, 10:34 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >> But Windows doesn't even have native processes for grep and sed and
> >> requiring CygWin or GitBash doesn't seem like a good idea.
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> >ActionScript has RegExp support [1] so an AIR grep wouldn’t be too hard
> >to create. Remind me what do the build scripts use grep for?
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> I don't think our builds call out to grep explicitly, but we do use the
> ReplaceRegExp Ant task in some cases and I'm not sure we have AntOnAIR
> fully equivalent.
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> AntOnAIR currently has enough to run the installer.xml scripts, but I
> think it is missing stuff we use in our build.xml and download.xml files.
> Tar/Jar also come to mind.  And, of course, it is still mimic-ing Ant,
> which some folks don't like.
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> The AntOnAIR project has a tests/AntOnAIR.mxml which in theory you can
> feed the command line "-f <some ant script>" and see how far it gets with
> our build.xml files.
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> -Alex
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