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Re: kawa 1.6.92 released


At 10:17 PM 6/10/01, Per Bothner wrote:
>Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
>
> > I think it would be good to have Ant support.
>
>Actually, I think it would *great* to have Ant support.
>
>Note that some Java files are run-through a pre-processor, which is
>currently sed; I don't know if Ant can do something similar.

Yeah, I noticed that looking through the makefiles.  Ant does have a token 
filtering option in the 'copy' task.  The only thing I'm not sure of is 
whether it allows spaces in the token names.  I'll find out soon (if it 
doesn't that would just mean changing '@if CHAR foo@' to '@if_CHAR_foo@') 
and make some Ant scripts for Kawa this week.

Note also that Ant has scripting capability (I use Rhino for JavaScript 
right now which can use any Java class directly) and of course Ant can call 
any system command desired, so there is no practical limitation on what it 
can do.  The only issue is how much of that rather complex logic in the 
pre-built scripts for Autoconf and Configure is actually needed by Kawa.

jim
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