On 7/18/2010 12:00 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
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From my selfish point of view, the move from make to ant is
unfortunate. As it happens, I've used make since about 1983, and I'm
just learning ant.
Ironic, the motivation for ant was to reduce the barriers for attracting
new developers. I think the barriers are, that distributed programming
is even harder than concurrent programming, so the focus should probably
be on making it easier to debug, your suggestions about handling failure
(favour correctness over trying to continue) make sense to me.
I may not be typical of most new open source developers from the point
of view of education and experience. However, I do think you will find
quite a lot of people using MS-Windows, so we really need a known set-up
for my environment.
Patricia
