FYI: Build system rewrite in Ant

[Tomasz Kowalczewski]

Whole community of dynamic language developers would benefit from a meta circular build system ;)

> On 01 Apr 2015, at 10:41, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2015-04-01 10:33 GMT+02:00 Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>:
>> The build system currently uses make to build OpenJDK. This is a technology that has been around for decades, and in places this legacy clearly shows.
>> 
>> An alternative build tool, Ant, is based on cutting-edge technology. Compared to the native GNU Make, Ant is based on Java™ technology, which makes portability issues a thing of the past. Ant is also directed using modern XML systems, with well-defined tags, compared to the aged and idiosyncratic Makefile syntax.
> 
> To be honest, I'm pretty disappointed by this move. In 2015 and with
> the advancements in the JVM technology, I would have expected that
> OpenJDK would be able to know how to build itself *without* a build
> tool!!
> 
> :)
> 
> Mario
> 
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