Re: GNU Make for Java projects

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 1/21/19 3:17 AM, Blake McBride wrote:

> 1.  When building C programs one calls the compiler for each source 
> file.  This is impractical with Java because of the javac startup time.  
> Typically javac is called once with many source files at a time - but 
> not the ones that are not out of date.

This is easy to overcome with a proper rule.

I've used make a lot in the past for some Java project which didn't 
involve complex layouts.




> 3.  Java build tools have the ability to download and cache files from 
> remote repositories over the net.

This is something that make does not do (and does not try to do).
Period.

If you are doing a complex project which involves a lot of dependencies 
and you want them to be fetched and delivered, I guess make is not an 
option.




Just my 2c.

 bye
        av.