pkgsrc/devel/apache-ant/DESCR
jschauma 944d01fdb1 Update "ant" to 1.5.3-1. The program was, up until version 1.5.1 known
as "jakarta-ant", and is now known as "apache-ant".  Changes since 1.4.1
are too many to list here.
2003-06-03 17:00:08 +00:00

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Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like
"make" without make's wrinkles and with the full portability
of pure java code.
Ant uses XML to specify build actions to be taken, and new
build actions are implemented in Java.