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The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of user supplied
task (like an <if> task) and a development
playground for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation
task for different compilers.
| Compatibility: | 1.4.1 and above |
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| URL: | http://sourcefoge.net/projects/ant-contrib/ |
| Contact: | project mailing list |
| License: | Apache Software Foundation license |
Anthill is a build tool that promotes a controlled build process by ensuring that every build reflects the source repository contents and tagging the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also encourages the sharing of knowledge within an organization by automatically updating a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build.
| Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.3, is compatible with Ant 1.3 to 1.4.1 |
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| URL: | http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/ |
| Contact: | Maciej Zawadzki |
| License: | Mozilla-like license |
CruiseControl is a tool for setting up a continuous build process. CruiseControl provides an Ant wrapper and a set of tasks to automate the checkout/build/test cycle. CruiseControl also comes bundled with a servlet for viewing the status of the current build, as well as previous build results.
| Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and higher |
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| URL: | http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/ |
| Contact: | Project Mailing Lists and Administrators |
| License: | Release 1.0 has been licensed under the GNU General Public License. Starting with release 1.1 the license has been changed to a BSD-like license. |
NAnt is a .NET based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.
| Compatibility: | not compatible to Ant at all. |
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| URL: | http://nant.sourceforge.net/ |
| Contact: | project mailing list |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
Rant stands for Remote Ant. It is a distributed build system that allows an Ant build file to launch builds on other systems and receive exceptions should they occur.
| Compatibility: | Ant 1.4 |
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| URL: | http://sourceforge.net/projects/remoteant/ |
| Contact: | Chris Nelson |
| License: | MIT License |
XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages from desktop documents or other structured documents using XSLT and Ant.
| Compatibility: | Ant 1.4 |
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| URL: | http://XMLpublication.org/ |
| Contact: | Jean-Marc Vanel |
| License: | GNU General Public License. |