> Per-Olof Nor?n writes:
>
> > The Ant build system is making its way to be a "de facto" standard for building java applications as
> > it is built for the purpose.
>
> Make as been the standard for building any application for about 30 years.
> GNU-style configure has been the standard for configuration management for
> about 10 years. Windows NT and Visual Basic have been the standard for
> enterprise computing for 5 years. Thank you very much. ;-)
A more important point is that we are not a java-only codebase. If we
were, I could see a stronger argument for Ant. As it is now, we have to
weigh using a Java-standard Ant vs. a PostgreSQL/C-standard makefile
solution.
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