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| <a name="Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!"></a> |
| Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now! |
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| <h3>October 11, 2007 - Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!</h3> |
| <p>Apache Ivy, "A Java based tool for tracking, resolving and |
| managing project dependencies.", just finished <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Incubation</a> and has joined |
| the Ant project. More information will be available from the Ant |
| site soon.</p> |
| <p>Until we've finished the migration, you can learn more about |
| Ivy from its <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/">Incubator |
| website</a>.</p> |
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| <a name="Ant 1.7.0"></a> |
| Ant 1.7.0 |
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| <h3>December 19, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0 Available</h3> |
| <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p> |
| <p>Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant |
| tasks such as <copy/> are now able to process not only file |
| system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... |
| Resource collections group resources, and can be further |
| combined with operators such as union and intersection. This |
| can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p> |
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| Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. |
| 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. |
| </p> |
| <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p> |
| <p>Ant 1.7 has some initial support for Java6 features.</p> |
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| <a name="AntUnit 1.0"></a> |
| AntUnit 1.0 |
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| <h3>January 8, 2007 - Apache AntUnit 1.0 Available</h3> |
| <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0 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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| <a name=".NET Ant Library 1.0"></a> |
| .NET Ant Library 1.0 |
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| <h3>November 6, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 Available</h3> |
| <p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p> |
| <p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well |
| as the "old .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested |
| Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p> |
| <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's |
| home page</a></p> |
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| <a name="Apache Ant"></a> |
| Apache Ant |
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| <p> |
| Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like |
| Make, but without Make's wrinkles. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| 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. |
| </p> |
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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 |
| tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular |
| Task interface. |
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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 |
| on. |
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| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.7.0) |
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