move the build system to ANT

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#10 move the build system to ANT

Milestone: 1.0_candidate

Status: open-accepted

Owner: Sujee Maniyam

Labels: build (1)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2004-11-02

Created: 2004-09-16

Private: No

The current build system uses GNU Make. This works
best on Linux/unix systems but not so on windows.

We should move to ANT
- it is supposed to be better than Make
- written in Java, so cross platform
- eclipse has good support for Ant integration