Re: Re (PRODUCTION!): [binarycloud-dev] ANT vs. MAKE

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> That's the point. I for myself got away from the idea designing a system the
> way I like best, or I think its groovy, tricky or whatever. I did that a
> long time before I started a business - playing around doing things I
> thought to be best - ignoring Windoze at all ;-). But as you said, It must
> be reliable, easy and powerful. In other words: most effective in any way.

yes!


>> ANTS is probably cool (I haven't known andi to say dumb
>> things, he's a smart guy) - so at the very least we
>> should _look_ at ants.
> ;-) Thanks. And that was all I wanted (may be my words where a bit
> misunderstanding) I never had the idea to force ant. I saw it's cool and
> that we can benefit from it in some way.

yes!


>> In the end, we probably won't use it: installing JRE
>> just for make is a pain in the ass if you're not building
>> a bunch of java code.
> 
> Here comes another thing into play. Again, don't misunderstand - this is not
> an attempt to somehow at least find a way to use ant ;-)
> What if we provide some kind of java interface with bc. That's only a
> thought, but most enterprise solutions are based upon java and bc might
> become more interesting and credible for enterprise applications if existing
> java stuff can be integrated smoothly. This is future thinking of course but
> why not ext.java.* ? :-)

possible, but difficult and (for the moment) sort of flimsy and unstable..

we're probably better off exposing XML interfaces for java applications.

> 
> Most defenetly. I think I speak for everyone on the list, when I say, every
> optinion, help and insights are mostly welcome.

yes!

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