Francis Galiegue schrieb am 07.05.2009 um 23:03:44 (+0200): > Le Thursday 07 May 2009 22:41:18 Michael Ludwig, vous avez écrit :
Thank you all for your quick response. > > * http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ > > The download link points to sources for cpptasks.jar. On http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36177 , I clicked on the wrong link. Silly me. > And that's where make is at the same time better and worse: make can > "make" full use of whatever utilities are available on a Unix > platform, and such a feat would have been MUCH shorter to achieve with > make and the appropriate tools. OTOH, make is a Unix "legacy" tool and > pretty much assumes a Unix environment and all its goodies (spell: > printf, find, cp, tr, expr, sed, seq, and yes, even the goold old cp, > which is much more powerful for some tasks than anything ant, and > others... And, of course, the shell and all of its programming > abilities, which ant doesn't match at the moment) and won't work well > on non Unix-like environment, unlike ant. Well, the shell. Obviously, the shell isn't cross-platform. But Ant is an unlikely creature, given that cross-platform tools such as Perl and Python were around then, and well established. But then, Perl and Python aren't Java. Or weren't. Nowadays, there's Jython. And Jerl: http://www.jerl.com/ Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
