Re: [Gnu-arch-users] make vs ?

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:07, Peter Conrad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:15:10PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > 
> > I've looked (barely) at ant (Java), however the XML config/ script seems
> > to be a little, ... verbose. If someone can compare make with ant, that
> > would be useful.
> 
> we've been using ant for our java-based projects for quite a while now,
> and we're (mostly) quite happy with it.
> 
> The most important benefits of ant are (to us):
> 
>  - it's platform independent (we're using both windows and linux)
>  - it has good built-in support for most tasks that come up in our work
>    (which is heavily leaning towards java + xml)
> 
> The biggest drawback of ant (when compared to make) that I have noticed so
> far is that it's sometimes very difficult to do things that would be
> a one-liner in a make script. (The second biggest is that you can't
> pipe the output of one task into another.) I suppose that's the price you
> pay for portability.
> 
> I still use make for everything that's not related to java/xml.

Thanks. More useful datapoints.

I am beginning to suspect that my current multiple shell scripts
solution will map most simply into make.

cheers
zen