Since then we have been looking at ways to deal with the verboseness of the ANT xml scripts. The command line tools seem to have changed subtly with the last few versions. See the section Building Ant on howto build Ant from the source code. We will continue to evolve our tasks and post more examples, so please check back often. After downloading and extracting the antext.zip file run the appropriate install script for your platform.
Developers are picky about laying out directories their own way.
This configure task was inspired by the linux configure command. Where, before doing a source tree build we need to inspect a users environment for the third-party libs needed to complete a build. Externalizing the transient pieces of your build environment help mitigate diverse user environments. This task will bootstrap your development environment by creating a properties file that contains transient items such as compiler settings and classpaths. This task uses the inherent search capabilities of patterns and filesets.