Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Pete Ryland <pdr@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:42:31PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, invisible ink wrote:
> >I kind of wondered about the concept of "we won't need them when we
> >achieve world domination"... What on Earth would we be using? ANT?
                                                                                
Well, automake will still be useful, but autoconf?  Not necessary.  My
problem is not with automake.  Actually, my main problem is with stupid
sysadmins who install things in /usr/local/Program\ Files/apache/ and world
domination ain't gonna stop them.

> I met Ant today.  "We wrote Ant because Make ties you to the OS, forcing
> you to use shell like syntax and calling external programs.  Ant removes
> this restriction by using JAVA OBJECTS!!!"
>
> Yes, sure.  Now instead of being tied to the OS I'm tied to the JAVA
> VIRTUAL MACHINE!
                                                                                
lol. :)  And point them at Cygwin.
                                                                                
make unfortunately isn't very efficient at Java compilation due to Java's
*ahem* neat way to compile all dependencies at the same time.  Ant fixes
that at least, but there are other ways to do it.
                                                                                
Pete
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