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File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.4.1-2

Notes:
Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make
without make's wrinkles.

Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake,
jam, and others? Because all of those tools have limitations that
Ant's original author couldn't live with when developing software
across multiple platforms. Make-like tools are inherently shell based.
They evaluate a set of dependencies and then execute commands not
unlike what you would issue on a shell. This means that you can easily
extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that you
are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to
the OS, or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on.


Changes:
* Tue Oct 23 2001 Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com
- Release of 1.4.1