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- <h3>September 17, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0Beta2 Available</h3>
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- The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
- Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
- be released shortly.
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- <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
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- <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
- <p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
- instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
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- <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
- <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
- <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
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- Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
- Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
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- Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
- <em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and
- others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's 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, then
- execute commands not unlike what you would issue in 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.
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- 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 have yet another format to use and remember.
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- Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
- commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands,
- the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various
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- Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being
- able to construct a shell command such as
- <code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code>, 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
- <code><exec></code> task that
- allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing
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