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Jul 2014
HoldProceed with caution
We continue to see teams expend significant effort on un-maintainable Ant and Nant build scripts. These are hard to understand and extend due to the inherent lack of expressiveness and clean modularity provided by the tools. Alternatives like Gradle, Buildr, and PSake have clearly demonstrated superior maintainability and productivity.