[antlr-interest] C# TARGET ANNOUNCEMENTS

Johannes Luber jaluber at gmx.de
Mon Apr 14 04:11:22 PDT 2008


Micheal J schrieb:
>>
>> Actually I meant that one could add to the Ant-build an 
>> <exec>-task which executes the appropriate build for a 
>> runtime. Those could be linked.
> 
> *shrugs*  --  If you insist on a unified build, why use Ant?. NAnt is just
> as capable.
> 
> Don't see the value personally. I expect that ANTLR users who wish to build
> from source are able to build the java bits (i.e. ANTLR tool + java runtime)
> using Ant - the java build tool and, the C# bits using the equivalent tool
> Nant.

The simple reason is that there is one ant build already, which can be 
simply modified. If I want to create a new private build, I have only to 
call one command and not two. Furthermore, one doesn't have to keep up 
with changes in the original ant build, too. It is also less work overall.

Johannes



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