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Maven and Ant are unnecessarily verbose. I find Makefiles and CMake far simpler. Maybe it's just the XML I'm sick of.
by yesimahuman 17y ago
Maven and Ant are unnecessarily verbose. I find Makefiles and CMake far simpler. Maybe it's just the XML I'm sick of.
- viraptor 17y agoI always thought about Ant as `make + native Java plugins`. Is there anything else it can do that doesn't fit in that description?
- gchpaco 17y agoCorrect dependency handling and implicit rules, for one. The amount of effort required to translate %.o: %.c into ant is unbelievable. You can use the depend tasks but those require you to know your dependencies ahead of time and take explicit action to check them. It is more a measure of how unbelievable maven 2 is that ant looks pretty good in comparison, because ant is terrible at most things other than running javac.