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.NET Ant Library 1.0
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Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
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Apache Ant
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Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
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Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
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Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
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time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing
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Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
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Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
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