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diff --git a/spss.iaiklibsupdate/ant.1-6-5/README b/spss.iaiklibsupdate/ant.1-6-5/README deleted file mode 100644 index 263c111d5..000000000 --- a/spss.iaiklibsupdate/ant.1-6-5/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ - - 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 Ant - Project web site <http://ant.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 Ant Project - <http://ant.apache.org/> |