<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/31 Göran Krampe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 02/01/2012 06:17 AM, Colin Putney wrote:<br>
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2012/1/31 Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" target="_blank">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" target="_blank">eliot.miranda@gmail.<u></u>com</a>>><br>
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A good challenge would be to reimplement ANT (a Java application) in<br>
Squeak/Pharo. That would force us to address real weaknesses.<br>
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I can vouch for this. I wrote Filesystem because trying to write Mason<br>
using FileDirectory was too painful.<br>
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AFAIK this has already been done by Keith Hodges (for Squeak building - not general building) in multiple layers (Bob the Builder, Sake etc):<br>
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<a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/Bob.html" target="_blank">http://www.squeaksource.com/<u></u>Bob.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/Packages.html" target="_blank">http://www.squeaksource.com/<u></u>Packages.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/Sake.html" target="_blank">http://www.squeaksource.com/<u></u>Sake.html</a><br>
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...but perhaps you meant for "generic software building".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. ANT is cross-platform and generic. I expect Squeak/Pharo would need lots of work beyond Colin's new file system and OSProcess to provide similar functionality. I think it would be a great driver to get the right support.</div>
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regards, Göran<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div><br>