From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>
Date: 2004-10-23T03:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Running ant from Ruby

OT, but after having implemented most of a build system in Ant (and
the hard parts in Perl), if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it
all in Ruby/Perl except for the java specific steps (Ant has a much
faster way to compile java projects, since it uses internal java API's
rather than invoking javac on a per-directory basis).  Ant is kind of
annoying though when it comes to conditionals, copying,
datastructures, etc -- antcontrib helps some, but not a lot.

Has anyone used Rake for any project ... have any comments?


On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:11:45 +0900, Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 'java ant'
> 
> this invocation asks java to run a class called ant.
> 
> 
> >"java -cp c:/apache-ant-1.6.1/lib ant"
> 
> ask java to look into c:/apache-ant-1.6.1/lib for a class called ant
> 
> >"java ant -lib c:/apache-ant-1.6.1/lib")
> 
> java doesn't have -lib switch.
> 
> you'll probably need to supply the full path of ant to run in (ant
> probably not in your PATH)
> 
> --
> edwin eyan moragas
> 
> ha... a... k... tu!
> 
>