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I’ve always been frusted by the (lack of) information contained in Ant’s<\/a> so called ‘Manual<\/a>‘. Considering it has been around for so long, I have found it lacks the wisdom of best practices or tips for writing more maintainable scripts. I probably should have bought copies of Ant: The Definitive Guide<\/a> and Java Development With Ant<\/a> but I have never really needed it (and I was sure its contents must already exist on the web). Little did I realise that this page<\/a> existed with more than enough of the sorts of information I wanted. Oh, and their wiki<\/a> is well maintained too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always been frusted by the (lack of) information contained in Ant’s so called ‘Manual‘. Considering it has been around for so long, I have found it lacks the wisdom of best practices or tips for writing more maintainable scripts. 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