On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:16AM -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > One suggestion for a project should it suit someone that seems just apt > for here (and I think there is an existing codebase on sourceforge) is > language extensions/support for ant. > > For those of you not familiar with ant jakarta.apache.org/ant. Ant is a > lot more pleasant to use than Makefiles. While its focus is Java > currently, there is support for other languages being developed > elsewhere. Hopefully one day it will be mostly out of the box. > > So you say "Gee I'm a C man...what does ant do for me"... ever paste a > patch for a make file? Don't you love that "use tab not spaces" > error... Ant is a painful build tool but about 99% less painful than > make when it comes to non-simple things. C/C++/D could gain a lot from > it!
Well, in the context of being language-agnostic, I don't think anyone wants to be forced to make any contributions to the ASF. So my basic philosophy on this topic comes down to this: If someone wants to do the work, and it furthers our goals, then the ASF should help them do it. If you want to write C-extensions to ant, and you think you'd like to do it under the Commons project, I'm a huge +1 and I'll even help you get going. Everything before that point is just speculation. -aaron
