OT Re: Ant installation (and other) issues!

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On 21-Oct-2001 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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. ;-)

And I thought Java was the standard for enterprise computering long before
Visual Basic. :-)  [Corba? What's Corba?  CICS anyone?]

I guess standards are what I use, and everyone else is violating them. ;-)

[Sorry, couldn't resist...]


Virtually,
Ned Wolpert <ned.wolpert@knowledgenet.com>

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