Apache Ant VS SCons

Apache Ant Reviews

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Apache Ant mentions (6)

• Want to Get Better at Java? Go Old School.

  I will not suggest truly old-school Java programming. When I started in Java, we built Java classes with the javac command. This led to writing shell scripts to build complex projects and finally, Makefiles using the Unix and Windows commands make and nmake respectively. I remember being thrilled when the Ant utility came out and we had a pure Java build tool. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  Didn't know that people still use Ant for building their source code. Source: over 1 year ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  OP is just running this https://ant.apache.org/, nothing to worry about. Source: over 1 year ago

• Better CI/CD caching with new-gen build systems

  A build system is a program that orchestrates the execution of underlying tools such as compilers, code generators, test runners, linters and so on. Examples of build systems include the venerable Make, the JVM-centric Ant, Maven and Gradle, and newer systems such as Pants and Bazel (full disclosure: I am one of the maintainers of Pants). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Build error when running 'nix build', running build steps by hand with 'nix develop' works

  You are missing a dependency: antlr. You have ant instead, which is something completely different. Source: almost 2 years ago

SCons mentions (14)

• Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make

  The most comprehensive make alternative in python I've seen is Scons (https://scons.org/) It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into. Blurb from the website: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile

  Https://scons.org/ It has cache facility to speed up re-builds. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• What was used to build C++ programs before Cmake?

  SCons never got popular enough to escape the niches it grew up in. Source: 10 months ago

• Is it possible to dynamically introduce nodes inside the project

  I literally do almost this exact thing with the game im working on. Situation is: im the programmer, working with an artist who cant code (and im not going to make them edit json on an ipad lmao) so I have a google drive spreadsheet where they put metadata for the items they make. I have a script that uses rclone to copy this down as a csv, along with the image assets. Then I wrote a python extension for scons... Source: about 1 year ago

• How do i get started with GD Extension?

  It's a build tool, like cmake. https://scons.org/ you have to install it. Source: about 1 year ago