7 messages in com.perforce.jamming[jamming] Current Java support?
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John D. Mitchell03 May 2002 18:07 
Diane Holt03 May 2002 18:26 
John D. Mitchell03 May 2002 18:37 
Diane Holt03 May 2002 18:53 
John D. Mitchell04 May 2002 06:28 
Jan Mikkelsen05 May 2002 15:59 
chris.gray06 May 2002 04:48 
Subject:[jamming] Current Java support?
From:John D. Mitchell (john@non.net)
Date:05/03/2002 06:37:55 PM
List:com.perforce.jamming

"Diane" == Diane Holt <hol@yahoo.com> writes:

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I reworked a Jam-based (on "Ames' stuff") Java build process into an Ant one and took it down from 40 minutes to 4, so I feel just a tad differently about Ant than you do :) The problem with the Jam-based one was no wildcarding, so you had these long lists of source files in the Jamfiles that you had to maintain, and feeding the Java files to the compiler one at a time, which is clearly gonna make the build incredibly slow.

Ah, I was hoping that someone had overcome the single .java file per compiler invocation issue. I.e., feeding the java compiler all of the .java files that it needs to process in each directory. :-(

Just out of curiosity, what is it about Ant that makes you dislike it?

XML stupidity. See: Humans should not have to grok XML: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sbxml.html

Take care, John