ant4x

Overview

Ant4x is a set of convenient ant tasks for any purpose that are not addressed by the main ant project or any sub-projects.

Ant4x is also a place for common tasks and utilities of other ‘ant4*’ projects.

Tasks

Xml tasks :

• xinclude task

Php tasks :

• phing task
• phpdoc task
• phpparser task
• phpunit task
• yakpro task

Javascript tasks :

• npm task
• gulp task
• typescript task
• browserify task
• vueify task
• ng-cli task
• meteor task

Qa tasks :

• clangformat task
• shfmt task

Database tasks :

• mysqldump task

Doc tasks :

• pandoc task
• wkhtmltopdf task
• gnuplot task
• chromium task

Media tasks :

• ffmpeg task
• exiv2 task

Miscellaneous tasks :

• command line task
• rsync task
• expect task

Subprojects

Ant4x subprojects :

• ant4docbook
• ant4hg
• bidji

Ant4x also aggregates some useful but forgotten/deprecated/alone tasks:

• the well-known ant-contrib, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, last commited in 2009 but forked on github.com/cniweb/ant-contrib

• xmltask in xml task
• antelope (split task)

News

• [2025-09-29] ant4x V0.11.0

  Features :

  • gnuplot task
  • chromium task

  Dependencies

  • Upgrade to Java 25
  • Upgrade freemarker from 2.3.27 to 2.3.34

• [2022-11-07] ant4x V0.10.0

  Features :

  • yakpro task
  • meteor task
  • wkhtmltopdf task
  • expect task
  • ffmpeg task
  • exiv2 task
  • shfmt task

• [2017-12-17] ant4x V0.9.0

  Features :

  • clangformat task
  • vueify task
  • browserify task
  • ng-cli task

  Upgrade freemarker from 2.3.23 to 2.3.27

• [2016-01-02] ant4x V0.8.0

  Features :

  • pandoc task
  • typescript formatter task

  Upgrade phpparser from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0

• [2015-08-29] ant4x V0.7.0

  Features :

  • npm task
  • gulp task
  • typescript task

  Upgrade freemarker from 2.3.22 to 2.3.23

• [2015-05-04] ant4x V0.6.0

  Features :

  • xinclude task
  • bower task

  Upgrade freemarker from 2.3.20 to 2.3.22

• [2014-10-04] ant4x V0.5.0

  Features :

  • mysqldump task
  • phpunit task

  Upgrade phpparser from 1.0.0beta1 to 1.0.0

• [2014-02-28] ant4x V0.4.0

  Features :

  • phing task
  • phpdoc task
  • phpuml task
  • phpparser task
  • text to xlsx task

• [2013-08-29] ant4x V0.3.0 released.

  Features :

  • csync task
  • rsync task
  • xlsx task

• [2013-05-28] ant4x V0.2.0

  Features :

  • command line task