2012/1/31 Göran Krampe goran@krampe.se
On 02/01/2012 06:17 AM, Colin Putney wrote:
2012/1/31 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com <mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.**com eliot.miranda@gmail.com>>
A good challenge would be to reimplement ANT (a Java application) in Squeak/Pharo. That would force us to address real weaknesses.
I can vouch for this. I wrote Filesystem because trying to write Mason using FileDirectory was too painful.
AFAIK this has already been done by Keith Hodges (for Squeak building - not general building) in multiple layers (Bob the Builder, Sake etc):
http://www.squeaksource.com/**Bob.htmlhttp://www.squeaksource.com/Bob.html http://www.squeaksource.com/**Packages.htmlhttp://www.squeaksource.com/Packages.html http://www.squeaksource.com/**Sake.htmlhttp://www.squeaksource.com/Sake.html
...but perhaps you meant for "generic software building".
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.
regards, Göran