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Today Virtual Ant was released…
With Virtual Ant you no longer have to get your hands dirty with XML to create or edit Ant build scripts. Work in a completely virtualized environment similar to Windows Explorer and run your tasks on a Virtual File System to see what they do, in real time, without affecting your real file system. The actual Ant build script is generated in the background.
I haven’t downloaded it yet – but it looks like it could be a useful tool if you were writing some complex Ant scripts – especially if they involved moving or deleting critical files.
Unfortunately it’s rather expensive but they do offer a free, non-commercial license for open source projects which is nice.
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What a great idea. Unfortunately, you’re right, it’s quite expensive. Prohibitively so since the XML isn’t all that difficult to write. Might try it out on some of my open source stuff, though. Thanks for making me aware.
If you try it – let me know how it works. It looks like a neat idea.