[brailleblaster] Re: ant

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:06:21 -0500

Laura,

Check your Cygwin. It may already have ant. If not, you can add it with 
the setup program.

My Cygwin has Subversion Mercurial, and just about every other 
programming tool. The Cygwin command line is much nicer than the Window 
cmd.

John

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:16:44PM -0500, qubit wrote:
> Kind of ominous having a program named after a bug...
> 
> I have 2 questions about installing ant on windows:
> There appears to be only one version of ant for windows, and presumably it 
> is for 32 bit, as it talks about building on xp and before.  Will this 
> version also build on 64 bit?
> 
> Q2: I can't find directions on installing the binaries.
> There is a file called "INSTALL that appears to be a binary a but I want 
> some indication how to use it.
> 
> Ok, I'll add a 3rd question: the verbage on the website )which I didn't look 
> at closely) talked about digital signatures.  Does that mean I have to 
> decrypt, or is that just to test the binaries against the key to be sure it 
> is official?
> 
> Thanx for any info.
> --le 
> 

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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities


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