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From: Ross G. <ro...@sa...> - 2002-10-31 18:43:01
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I've added ANT support to the project. For those who don't know what this means ANT is the build tool that Centipede extends. It has been around much longer than Centipede and therefore has many more users. However, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Centipede has. I have provided minimal Ant support simply because many prospective developers will already have ANT installed and lowering the barriers to entry for these people has to be a good thing. They will move to Centipede as and when they see fit. The second reason for doing this is that the two most common tasks when developing an application are to compile it and to run it. FOr these two tasks Centipede adds very little over and above a vanilla verion of Ant, however, Ant is much faster to start up. Therefore, I have added support for these two tasks in ant. For those who have installed Centipede but not Ant you need not install Ant separately, it comes as part of Centipede. I recommend that you use: ant compile and ant run instead of cent compile and cent run from now on, it will make your work faster! Ross |