Packaging A Robot To A Jar from the Command Line?

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I have to say, not too much of a fan of Ant personally. Comparing Makefiles and Ant XML I'd agree the XML is more portable, but I'd consider the Makefile to similar in terms of friendliness for manual editing. On one hand Make is annoyingly picky about certain whitespace, but on the other hand I find some of the boilerplate string repetition in XML to make things less human-readable, especially when not using a syntax highlighting text editor.

(Then again, part of my not being a fan of Ant may be on account of having seen Ant badly abused as a general-ish purpose scripting language. In other words... being forced to write certain kinds of scripting flow control in Ant XML can probably make someone start to dislike Ant...)

Rednaxela (talk)‎22:14, 4 December 2013

I only use it to package my robot. How do you do even do 'general flow control' in ant? The only ways I can think of are massively involved.

Chase‎09:14, 5 December 2013
 

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Ah, okay. Gradle sounds interesting. I always thought Ant would be better if I could just write a code to do everything it does, instead of using XML. As it would be easier to write and read (for me anyway).

Chase‎18:52, 6 December 2013
 
 
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