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by Angsuman Chakraborty.
Original Post: Gripes please: Build System
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Background: I have used ANT (yes make and its variants too) a lot, recommended it for creating our own build system at a company I worked. At that time I realized that Ant has challenges addressing the needs of enterprise wide build system. In a project project involving multiple components, which are shared, ant doesn't make it easy to inherit build files, or make it parameterized. Compiling and testing components selectively based on its dependency isn't easy to do in Ant.
Ant doesn't work well on the deployment side of the picture (yes I know it has ftp etc). After ...
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