Borklog: One entry
26 September 2001
Kuro5hin has an article on make vs ant, two build tools. I found ant frustrating to use (when getting my home copy of ACS/Java to compile), and I'm familiar with make. I was amused by the conculsions of the article (e.g. we're using it for the wrong purpose)
Use ant if:
- You are a single developer or one of a very small
development group working a small Java-based
application and you don't know make.
- You are working on a project that will be developed or
deployed on a platform other than UNIX or Windows
- Your developers are all using their own build scripts and
you need something fast and are not looking to build a
large general-purpose build system
Use make if:
- You know make
- You are working on a medium to large sized project or on
a project with more than a few developers.
- You need to integrate with a variety of configuration
management tools
- You are building a medium to long-term solution for build
and deployment that must handle a wide variety of tools
and technologies
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