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Oh lord, It’s hard to parse build files

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Nat Pryce left a comment on my post A real BuildRefactoring, in the wild: IntelliJ can do some simple refactorings of Ant scripts: extractproperty, rename target, rename property, etc. But refactoring of Ant and Nant is very difficult because they have noconsistent syntax or semantics. They are just quick hacks that havegrown kludge by kludge [...]

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Ant Best Practices: Use Ant as the Least Common Denominator

Sunday, June 29, 2008

(image taken from Clearly Ambiguous’ Photostream) We’re back to the best practices this weekend with 12 of 15: Use Ant as the Least Common Denominator. What are we talking about? The answer is here. What does the common denominator mean? There’s generally a conflict around this on software projects. I’ll explain: The developer wants to [...]

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