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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Alan Gutierrez <al...@engrm.com> on 2005/10/12 14:04:26 UTC
Pure Ant
I've spent the past few days configuring Ant, and doing my best
to avoid external dependencies in the build. It is working.
I don't like seeing 3-5 targets scroll by just to set
properties, though. I'm ready to adopt Ant Contrib if it means
making the build less verbose, and hopefully faster.
I am using some outside tasks to build the code, but except for
Ivy, I'm not using any to run Ant itself.
What is your experience? What happens to an Ant build when you
start getting into dependencies? Does Ant contrib fill in the
blanks nicely, or will I just keep adding dependencies?
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Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com - http://engrm.com/blogometer/
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Re: Pure Ant
Posted by Dominique Devienne <dd...@gmail.com>.
On 10/12/05, Alan Gutierrez <al...@engrm.com> wrote:
> I've spent the past few days configuring Ant, and doing my best
> to avoid external dependencies in the build. It is working.
>
> I don't like seeing 3-5 targets scroll by just to set
> properties, though. I'm ready to adopt Ant Contrib if it means
> making the build less verbose, and hopefully faster.
>
> I am using some outside tasks to build the code, but except for
> Ivy, I'm not using any to run Ant itself.
>
> What is your experience? What happens to an Ant build when you
> start getting into dependencies? Does Ant contrib fill in the
> blanks nicely, or will I just keep adding dependencies?
Do you mean that the way to do conditional with "pure" Ant with
target's if/unless is not what you want? Then by all means use
Ant-Contrib. If has excellent tasks like <for> and <outofdate>, and
also <if>, <trycatch>, and <propertyregex>. Some of these belongs to
Ant code IMHO, when others probably not, but it's a good bag of tasks,
and there's nothing wrong with using them. Just drop the jar in
ant/lib, declare xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib", and start using
<ac:if>. --DD
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