Re: DataInputStream changes...

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> Brian Jones <address@hidden> 08-Dec-00 4:57:38 AM >>>

>I have not seen a sufficiently difficult build process 
>use Ant yet.  I'll keep looking of course... I'm just not 
>sure what the hype is about.

I agree. Most of the time I find that:

   javac -switches @filelist

works very well for compiling java files.

I've also had a dependancy system working for creating the @ list. I
thought about trying to improve it but I'm not sure what language to
write it in... currently it's emacs lisp but that's not really
portable enough for a generic solution.

The other problem with things like this is that, as Brian pointed
out, all the complex things that you need to do (like copying resource
files about or meta-language compilation) are still best expressed in
a Makefile.


Nic