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Bram Moolenaar (of VIM fame) On A-A-P

Posted by timothy on from the makes-your-head-spin dept.

blab writes "I've posted an interview with Bram Moolenaar, of Vim fame, about his very newly released project A-A-P. Find out about 'super-make.'"

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  1. Re:Okay, this is pretty damned cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Java folks call it Ant.

  2. Re:Ant is terrible by cjpez · · Score: 4, Informative
    At the company I used to work for, we started using Ant for the build system for a number of our projects, and it ended up working out really well. It'd do all the automatic downloading of files and dependencies, etc. We could use it to build up a development environment in no time at all (just install Java/Ant and then run one command to have everything automatically do cvs checkouts, compile, and all that good stuff). It also made installations a breeze - we cut back on our software install time by a phenomenal amount, because all we needed to do was run one or two commands.

    Not that you couldn't do all that stuff in some other way, but it did work out really well for us. The XML-ish syntax was a little hokey, but we had defined so many targets for ourselves that it made life really easy.

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  3. Cook? by DannyBoy · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about cook? I've been using it at work for about a year now, and have been very happy with it. It is a new syntax to learn, but the concepts are the same as make. I'd say its as good or better than ant (and I disagree with the comment "ant is terrible". its been great on all of the java-based projects i've worked on in the past couple of years). I'd guess that cook had at least some influence on aap as well. In the interview, Bram specifically used the word "recipe", which is the same terminoligy used by cook. I'd highly reccomend it to anyone looking for a better make. http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/cook/cook.htm l