One such instance I feel is ANT build tool.
There is nothing that gmake cannot do that ant can.
The only core advantage with Ant would be its creation of custom tags for custom tasks.
However the dependency induced to use it
1) Check the well formed of XML file build.xml
2) Ensure it adheres to Ant syntax for simple tasks upon the first requirement
3) Do ensure you got JRE running on your platform.
Anyway, I would not shoe this approach for it makes me aware that people can devise complex approach to tackle a problem and make it an invention/technology as they call.
Also to keep track of the ANT evaluation here goes my first build.xml
Refer outside this area since since this blog provider doe snot display xml file :(
Time to look at some good aspects
- Ant also throws some deprecation errors
- Amazing documentation available at Apache site http://ant.apache.org/
