Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Ant v Makefile

[Jeffrey M. <ku...@zo...>]

I know and love ant and use it every day at work.  I would
have to say there are two reasons why we are not using ant
in java-gnome.  They are:

1) We have to rely on the GNU build tools to locate, verify
and link with the appropriate libraries.  We also need these
tools to sort out differences between each platform.  Ant 
currently does not do a good job at this.  This will delegate
ant to a secondary tool that can be invoked from our Makefile
in order to compile the java code.

2) We wish to limit the number of tools that need to be 
installed and configured on a system in order to compile 
java-gnome.  Since java-gnome has been included in the
GNOME Bindings Release we hope to see it become a part of
many distributions in the future.  Since ant is not included
in many of the distributions this will require developers to
download and install another tool prior to compiling the
bindings.

Right or wrong, this is our view at this point.  Please feel
free to provide counter arguements.

-Jeff

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 11:56, ACJT wrote:
> This might seem like a dumb question, but I'm not a C expert, or an 
> expert at building projects in Linux, other than running the commands.
> Why does java-gnome not use Ant to do the building, considering it is a 
> Java project and Ant is really the standard build tool for Java. I know 
> there are C files to compile, is this the reason? You can use gjc from 
> ant, as a standard task. There is also a task called 'cc' that can 
> compile using gcc for example.