Category Archives: Ant

Demanding of Ant: 2 Run Once

The use of the depends attribute on targets is prevalent in many project Ant scripts.  I believe that depends is the bane of reuse.  Lets take the name of a simple target like deploy.  In the context of a developers … Continue reading →

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May 2, 2010 Ant, Continuous Integration

Demanding of Ant: 1 scriptdef

I hate Ant. I like NAnt better, and I hate NAnt too.  The intent of this series is to share how I have demanded more out of Ant. Did you know that you can mess with the Java objects of … Continue reading →

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May 1, 2010 Ant, Continuous Integration

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