Apache Ant VS WinMerge

Apache Ant Reviews

WinMerge Reviews

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: almost 2 years 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: almost 2 years 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 / almost 2 years 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

WinMerge mentions (28)

• Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

  I use WinMerge[1] a lot, and it's always impressed me how it immediately opens to a useable state. So it's absolutely still possible to write Windows software that can open instantly. I think the biggest issue, which multiple other comments have identified, is that people just don't care. Apps open fast enough these days, and no one is pushing back on developers to improve their app's startup performance. [1]:... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Two HDDs that should have identical data on them have a 50GB discrepancy, can't figure out where the files are

  I’ve used winmerge before and had good results comparing drives. Source: about 1 year ago

• Program that deletes files that match an MD5 hash?

  However, if you're looking to compare files that already exist, you can use something like WinMerge. Source: about 1 year ago

• Mirroring my 12 TB Drive. What do I need to check to ensure all data is transferred without corruption?

  I use Robocopy to preserve the original timestamps (using the /COPY:DAT and /DCOPY:DAT arguments) and WinMerge for doing a subsequent binary compare of the source/destination (sorting the results column by which files are different). Source: about 1 year ago

• Compare two Salesforce exports

  I haven't used this one but for example https://winmerge.org. Source: about 1 year ago