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+ A N T
+
+
+ What is it?
+ -----------
+
+ Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like "make"
+ without makes wrinkles and with the full portability of pure java code.
+
+
+ Why?
+ ----
+
+ Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam,
+ and others? Because all of those tools have limitations that its original
+ author couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms.
+
+ Make-like tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of
+ dependencies and then execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a
+ shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing
+ any program for the OS that you are working on. However, this also means that
+ you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you
+ are working on.
+
+ Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
+ time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing
+ because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of Ant
+ way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
+ still use yet another format to use and remember.
+
+ Ant is different. Instead a model where it is extended with shell based
+ commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell
+ commands, the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree
+ where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which
+ implements a particular Task interface.
+
+ Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being
+ able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but
+ it gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and
+ everywhere. And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has
+ an exec rule that allows different commands to be executed based on the OS
+ that it is executing on.
+
+ The Latest Version
+ ------------------
+
+ Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache Jakarta
+ Project web site <http://jakarta.apache.org/>.
+
+
+ Documentation
+ -------------
+
+ Documentation is available in HTML format, in the docs/ directory.
+ For information about building and installing Ant, see
+ docs/manual/index.html
+
+
+ Licensing
+ ---------
+
+ This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file
+ named "LICENSE" in this directory.
+
+
+ Thanks for using Ant.
+
+ The Apache Jakarta Project
+ <http://jakarta.apache.org/>
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