“Is my command not executing because I have a space in front of my tab!!!” said the original author of Ant way too many times.
Anybody who has worked on them for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type such as UNIX, that you are working on. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that you are working on. Make-like tools are inherently shell-based - they evaluate a set of dependencies, and then execute commands not unlike what you would issue in a shell. Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others?īecause all those tools have limitations that Ant’s original author couldn’t live with when developing software across multiple platforms. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make’s wrinkles.
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