Ant Now A Top Level Apache Project

hardcorejon writes "Am I the only person who didn't notice that on November 18th 2002, the Apache Ant Project had migrated out from under the Jakarta Project umbrella to become a top-level Apache project, joining the ranks of the Apache HTTP Server Project? Well, for those of us who use Ant on a regular basis, this is great news. Ant is an incredibly powerful tool, increasingly a standard build system for many new projects."

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Re:What is Apache Ant?

[Scarblac]

...and with the full portability of pure Java code.

As opposed to make, which is written in C, which only runs on a few platforms?

Of course, if you're writing Java, Ant will run on exactly the platforms you need it on so it's great. It's great anyway because it's just so easy to use. But portability is not an advantage it has over make.

Reminds me of the debate about converting Python to compile using autoconf/automake because it would be 'more portable'. The Python people won't do it, because Python currently runs on a lot more platforms than autoconf...