Hi, > Beside attempts like premake and scons, there is no actually > good multiplatform native build toolkits. Existing ant plugins > either follow the premake/scons concept of producing the native > make files, or do a compilation directly, but all of them require > some sort of (usually huge) runtime environment with complex > setup and high learning curve. Ant syntax and concepts should > at least lower down that learning curve thought.
Can I ask, when you say 'syntax' do you mean xml markup or tasks/targets and the declarative (not imperative) feel to ant? Going with xml as a 'language' was probably the worst possible choice for ant - however over time Java has gained some fairly good xml processing tools, but it's still an unwieldy and cumbersome (and terribly verbose) way of specifying things. Look at leiningen [1] for a complete change of pace from ant/mvn xml badness. Kev [1] http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
