gantt is a semi-clone of Apache Ant, written in C. It's small,
fast, and extensible without knowledge of Java. The idea is to
provide a free Ant-like tool for Java projects that will run on
systems that don't necessarily have a Java virtual machine
installed.  gantt is distributed under the GNU GPL.  gantt uses
the Gnome libxml2 and glib libraries to provide multi-platform
support. It processes standard Ant buildfiles and has the same
syntax. However, you cannot (yet) use Ant Java extensions in
gantt. Instead, you can define your own tags and they will be
executed as regular programs.  Most of the core Ant tasks are
implemented in gantt. Some of these use the extensibility
feature described above: when gantt encounters a task tag it
doesn't have built-in support for, it tries to find and execute
a program of that name, setting various evironment variables
appropriately. For instance, all attributes of the tag are
available as environment variables of the same name, and the
list of files defined by a fileset a