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The original Rosetta stone was discovered in Egypt in 1799, and controversially brought back to Europe in 1802. The stone led to a breakthrough in the decipherment of Hieroglyphic writing. It now resides in the British Museum in London and is well worth a visit. Wikipedia link
What's on this stone? Major tasks and commands from several build languages.
Most build tools deal with a very similar problem in a familiar way. So if you know one build tool, you probably don't want gory details on how to write a build file - you just want to know about that task. You know, that task? I know what it is in Ant ...
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| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | Rake | Desc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basename | . | . | . | Identify the last element of a path |
| BUnzip2 | . | . | . | Extract a Bzip2 archive |
| BZip2 | . | . | . | Make a Bzip2 archive |
| Checksum | . | . | . | Calculate the message digest checksum of a file |
| Chmod | attrib | . | . | Change permission bits on a file |
| Concat | . | . | . | Concatenate files |
| Copy | copy | Copy | cp | Copy files or directories |
| Delete | delete | Delete,RemoveDir | rm, rm_r | Remove files or directories |
| Dirname | . | . | . | Identify the directories that make up a path |
| FixCRLF | . | . | . | Change the line ending of a file |
| Filter | . | . | . | Replace tokens in files |
| GUnzip | gunzip | . | . | Uncompress a GZip archive |
| GZip | . | . | . | Make a GZip archive [surely nant has this?| |
| LoadFile | loadfile | . | . | read a file into a property |
| Mkdir | . | MakeDir | . | Make a new directory |
| Move | move | . | . | Move files and directories |
| Replace | . | . | . | Replace a token in a file or group of files |
| Tar | tar | . | . | Make or extract a tar archive |
| Tempfile | . | . | . | Make a unique temporary directory |
| Touch | touch | Touch | touch | Update timestamp on a file |
| Unzip | . | . | . | Extract a Zip archive file |
| Zip | zip | . | . | Make a Zip archive file |
| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| . | al | AL | . |
| . | cl | . | Compile C/C++ code |
| . | csc | Csc | Compile C# code |
| javadoc | ndoc | . | Generate Documentation |
| Java | . | . | Run Java Code |
| Javac | . | . | Compile Java Code |
| . | vbc | Vbc | Compile Visual Basic Code |
| . | jsc | . | Compile Jscript.NET code |
| . | vjc | . | Compile J# code |
| junit 1 | nunit2 | . | . |
| Rmic | . | . | run the RMIC compiler for a single class |
| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | Rake |
|---|---|---|---|
| . | ASMInfo | AssemblyInfo | . |
| Ear | . | . | . |
| Jar | . | . | . |
| Manifest | . | . | . |
| ManifestClassPath | . | . | . |
| Unjar | . | . | . |
| Untar | . | . | . |
| Unwar | . | . | . |
| War | . | . | . |
| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | Rake |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvs | cvs | . | . |
| CvsChangeLog | cvs-changelog | . | . |
| CvsVersion | . | . | . |
| CVSPass | cvs-pass | . | . |
| CvsTagDiff | . | . | . |
| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | Rake |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ant | Nant | MsBuild | . |
| AntCall | NantCall | CallTarget | . |
| AntStructure | NantSchema | . | . |
| Apply | . | . | . |
| Available | . | . | . |
| BuildNumber | . | . | . |
| Condition | if | . | . |
| Defaultexcludes | . | . | . |
| Description | Description | . | . |
| Dependset | . | . | . |
| Diagnostics | . | . | . |
| Echo | echo | Message | puts |
| EchoXML | . | . | . |
| Exec | Exec | Exec | . |
| Fail | fail | . | . |
| . | Foreach | . | . |
| GenKey | . | . | . |
| Get | Get | . | . |
| Import | include | . | . |
| Input | . | . | . |
| Length | . | . | . |
| LoadProperties | . | . | . |
| LoadResource | . | . | . |
| MakeURL | . | . | . |
| . | . | ||
| Macrodef | . | . | . |
| Nice | . | . | . |
| Parallel | . | . | . |
| Patch | . | . | . |
| PathConvert | . | . | . |
| PreSetDef | . | . | . |
| Property | property | . | property |
| Record | . | . | . |
| ResourceCount | . | . | . |
| script,scriptdef1 | script | . | . |
| Sequential | . | . | . |
| . | servicecontroller | . | . |
| SignJar | . | . | . |
| Sleep | sleep. | . | . |
| Sql | . | . | . |
| Subant | . | . | . |
| Sync | . | . | . |
| Taskdef | loadtasks | . | require |
| TStamp | tstamp | . | . |
| Typedef | . | . | . |
| Uptodate | . | . | . |
| Waitfor | . | . | . |
| . | . | Warning | . |
| WhichResource | . | . | . |
| XmlProperty | . | . | . |
| XSLT/Style | style | . | . |
| SVN | CVS | Git | Mercurial | Perforce | Desc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| svn export | . | git clone (and delete the .git dir) | . | . | . |
| svn co | cvs co | git clone | . | p4 co | . |
| svn ci | cvs ci | git commit && git push | . | p4 ci | Stick it back in again |
Deprecated tasks are not included.
Julian Simpson
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