Ant (with Python extensions) good replacement for distutils?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> I know distutils well but don't know anything about Ant except that it
> is a build
> tool from Apache project.
> 
> Could it possible be better or as good as distutils?
> (There are extensions for Python.)

No way. Ant sucks. Big-time. I actually enhance it with embedded jython 
to get at least _some_ flexibility.

Diez