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

[ACJT <ac...@on...>]

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No argument, just wondering the reason, thought it might be related to
bindings work. I had the thought it would make porting to windows easier.



Jeffrey Morgan wrote:

| 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.
|
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