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1 URL: http://apache.opensourceresources.org/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar
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2 Version: 1.7.1 | |
3 License: Apache License 2.0 | |
4 License File: LICENSE | |
5 | 1 |
6 Description: | 2 A N T |
7 Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like "make" | 3 |
8 without makes wrinkles and with the full portability of pure java code. | |
9 | 4 |
10 Local Modifications: | 5 What is it? |
11 * Modified bin/ant to look in the ant.runfiles directory | 6 ----------- |
12 generated by the google3 BUILD system for its data. | 7 |
| 8 Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like "make" |
| 9 without makes wrinkles and with the full portability of pure java code. |
13 | 10 |
14 * Removed from ant.jar: | 11 |
15 org/apache/tools/bzip2/... | 12 Why? |
16 Added dep: //third_party/java/bzip2 | 13 ---- |
| 14 |
| 15 Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, |
| 16 and others? Because all of those tools have limitations that its original |
| 17 author couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. |
| 18 |
| 19 Make-like tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of |
| 20 dependencies and then execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a |
| 21 shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing |
| 22 any program for the OS that you are working on. However, this also means that |
| 23 you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you |
| 24 are working on. |
| 25 |
| 26 Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any |
| 27 time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing |
| 28 because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of Ant |
| 29 way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but |
| 30 still use yet another format to use and remember. |
| 31 |
| 32 Ant is different. Instead a model where it is extended with shell based |
| 33 commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell |
| 34 commands, the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree |
| 35 where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which |
| 36 implements a particular Task interface. |
| 37 |
| 38 Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being |
| 39 able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but |
| 40 it gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and |
| 41 everywhere. And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has |
| 42 an exec rule that allows different commands to be executed based on the OS |
| 43 that it is executing on. |
17 | 44 |
| 45 The Latest Version |
| 46 ------------------ |
| 47 |
| 48 Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache Ant |
| 49 Project web site <http://ant.apache.org/>. |
| 50 |
| 51 |
| 52 Documentation |
| 53 ------------- |
| 54 |
| 55 Documentation is available in HTML format, in the docs/ directory. |
| 56 For information about building and installing Ant, see |
| 57 docs/manual/index.html |
| 58 |
| 59 |
| 60 Licensing |
| 61 --------- |
| 62 |
| 63 This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file |
| 64 named "LICENSE" in this directory. |
| 65 |
| 66 This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in |
| 67 which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, |
| 68 possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of |
| 69 encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please |
| 70 check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the |
| 71 import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to |
| 72 see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> for more |
| 73 information. |
| 74 |
| 75 The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and |
| 76 Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity |
| 77 Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security |
| 78 software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric |
| 79 algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation |
| 80 distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception |
| 81 ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS |
| 82 Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object |
| 83 code and source code. |
| 84 |
| 85 The following provides more details on the included cryptographic |
| 86 software: |
| 87 |
| 88 For the SSH family of tasks (<sshexec> and <scp>) Ant requires the |
| 89 JSch <http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html> library as well as the |
| 90 Java Cryptography extensions |
| 91 <http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/security/>. Ant does not |
| 92 include these libraries itself, but is designed to use them. |
| 93 |
| 94 Thanks for using Ant. |
| 95 |
| 96 The Apache Ant Project |
| 97 <http://ant.apache.org/> |
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