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Has anyone used Ant in conjunction with Perl?
I am considering it, in desperation, because I have not been able
to find a more Perl friendly tool for carrying out tasks with
dependencies.
Everything I have found out there is too specialized around the
problem of building a software distribution. In C. On Unix.
The tasks I have in mind have nothing to do with building software,
and only a small fraction of them have anything to do with generating
files from other files. In fact, most of the tasks involve
interrogating and/or updating a large database, or downloading
remote data.
I find that make and "make replacements" are too limited in how
they determine whether a task needs to be updated.
Ant, despite being in Java (which I don't like one bit), at least
offers more flexibility in how tasks are determined to be up-to-date.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
kj
P.S. I know about Cons, but I find its documentation useless; for
this reason alone, even if Cons met all my requirements I can't
recommend it to my team.
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NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
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