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Subject: AW: AW: What should be downloaded
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:00:10 +0200
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Thread-Topic: AW: What should be downloaded
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From: <Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de>
To: <user@ant.apache.org>

>Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
>> Is that ok?
>>=20
>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install
>.html?view=3Ddiff&r1=3D577182&r2=3D577183&pathrev=3D577183
>>  =20
>Wow, quick work. Thanks, Jan, that looks great. I have a few=20
>minor edits=20
>and wanted to get the subdirectory info in there, but I'm having=20
>Subversion issues today so I'll have to check in the changes later.

Ok - that is a starting point.


>>> and not all Ant users are=20
>>> programmers. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> ??? really? What are the other scenarios (for non-developers)?
>>  =20
>Well, I can think of several groups that I've seen running it. One is=20
>sysadmins that use Ant for various deployment and system maintenance=20
>tasks. They may even be responsible for keeping a build=20
>machine running=20
>for developers. They are technical, yes, but not necessarily=20
>programmers.
>
>Another group is QA testers who may use Ant to automate testing,=20
>particularly with tools like Canoo WebTest[1] or with a custom=20
>built system.
>
>Yet another is anyone installing an application that requires the=20
>running of Ant to perform or complete the installation. Any=20
>application=20
>distributed using Ant Installer[2] or Antigen[3] would fit into this=20
>category, to name just two.
>
>Then there are all the document handling solutions such as the=20
>one Mark=20
>mentioned in his email. Ant is ideal for hiding multiple XSLT=20
>transforms=20
>and just "building" output documents from input XML. XML=20
>Publication[4]=20
>is another example of this.
>
>Those are just a few examples that spring to mind. I'm sure there are=20
>many others.
>
>[1] http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html
>[2] http://antinstaller.sourceforge.net/
>[3] http://antigen.sourceforge.net/
>[4] http://wwbota.free.fr/XMLPublication/doc/presentation.html


Thanks you two for pointing out.


Jan

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