Comment Re:What about make and emacs? (Score 1) 428
> > 1. I had to get the next version of ant to ask it to pass a -ea to the java compiler.
> -ea? Its not a javac option. And you can add any compiler argument like with the tag. Maybe you mean the -ea enable assertions feature of the java program. yes, that didnt come out till after java1.4, but you could still do it by hand.
Yeah, it was assertions, I can't reacall the details, all I know is that our build broke when we added assertions and I couldn't teach ant how to pass in the right args to something, must have been java for the test target.
I don't buy it that I have to use ant if I'm developing in java but thats the way the world has gone. I don't see where the big win is except thats what all the IDE's are built around. I suppose ant offers a more portable build environment but I generally don't care (and there's always cygwin).
Maybe my real problem is that nasty build.xml that was thrust upon us on that project back in 2002 (and, yes, makefiles can get pretty ugly too).
> -ea? Its not a javac option. And you can add any compiler argument like with the tag. Maybe you mean the -ea enable assertions feature of the java program. yes, that didnt come out till after java1.4, but you could still do it by hand.
Yeah, it was assertions, I can't reacall the details, all I know is that our build broke when we added assertions and I couldn't teach ant how to pass in the right args to something, must have been java for the test target.
I don't buy it that I have to use ant if I'm developing in java but thats the way the world has gone. I don't see where the big win is except thats what all the IDE's are built around. I suppose ant offers a more portable build environment but I generally don't care (and there's always cygwin).
Maybe my real problem is that nasty build.xml that was thrust upon us on that project back in 2002 (and, yes, makefiles can get pretty ugly too).
