Francis ANDRE wrote: > IMHO, ant should not be used to generate the configure and makefile > scripts; > Instead the building process must avoid all these specific Unix tools > like autoconf/configure. As a example of a great usage of ant for > building a > product, have a look to the directory in the Apache axis project : > ws-axis/c/build. > > It is the build directory for the Apache Axis C version targeting the > major platforms as Linux, OS/400 HP-UX, OS/390 and so on. > > I am using a similar approach for a tool targeting WXP, Linux, OS/390 > and it > works as expected: only one build infrastructure for all platforms.
Sounds great. Send Patches. I personally also like SCons[1], which is in Python, and has a similar goal to Ant. -Paul [1] http://www.scons.org/
