From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Anthony Green" To: "Jason Petrone" , Subject: Re: Ant Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <003501c15b26$13dcb200$5be6b4cd@cygnus.com> References: <20011022133259.D31727@cnri.reston.va.us> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00044.html Jason wrote: > Any plans to add ant( http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ ) to RHUG? Not right now. > Before I jump in and start it myself I wanted to see if there was a reason it > wasn't already there. Well, I'm not sure exactly what the value would be. Admittedly, I'm pretty ignorant about Ant - so please let me know where I'm going wrong. IIRC, Ant invokes Sun's javac compiler via it's java interface (com.sun.tools...?? - or something like that). This has the advantage that once you've started Ant, calling the compiler is relatively quick because the VM is already running. We won't be able to use this same interface for javac, which means every invocation of Sun's compiler will mean starting the VM -- a relatively slow process. So compiling Ant to native code doesn't seem all that compelling on the surface. Are there other ways Ant is used in which it is a win? Maybe for people using jikes? Don't let this stop you though! Thanks, AG