Ant (with Python extensions) good replacement for distutils?

[Michael Schneider]

I would vote against ant because java must be installed to run it.


The bootstrap install should be very simple.  If you make python usage
dependent on:

1) download java
2) install java
3) add java to path
4) download ant
5) install ant
6) add ant to path
7) download ptyhon
8) install python
9) add python to path
10) download package
11) run ant to install package

just food for thought,
Mike

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> I know distutils well but don't know anything about Ant except that it
> is a build
> tool from Apache project.
> 
> Could it possible be better or as good as distutils?
> (There are extensions for Python.)
> 
> Chris
> 


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