[Upstage-list] Build automation

[Martin E. <ey...@fo...>]

Hi all!

I have made some adjustments to the 2.1 sources to simplify the build 
process with Ant (http://ant.apache.org/).

Ant essentially is a tool to automate the build process:
- compiling the code
- running the code (logs are shown on the console)
- packaging (either compressed archive of the source tree as also 
creating installer packages)
- creating api documentation (using doxygen)
- reporting (like code coverage, etc)

My implementation works on Windows, Mac and Linux with slightly changed 
sources. So cross-platform development is possible.

I would like to commit the code to a dedicated branch in subversion. 
Please let me know if and when this is possible.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Martin