Re: [PATCHES] Ant configuration

Barry Lind writes:

> I don't like this patch.  If anything I think we should remove the
> dependency on ANT, not remove the dependency on make.

The use of Ant originally seemed attractive because it would solve the
detection of the jdk version, the portable invocation of the compiler, and
the dependency generation.  However, I must currently consider this
experiment a failure, because for each problem Ant solves it introduces a
load of worse problems into the system.  Thus, if we can agree to work out
a configure/make-based system for the next release I would be very much
for it.

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