what can Phing do that Ant can't?

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Published on 2010-03-23T19:29:01Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 19:43 UTC
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I'm doing PHP development and I'm thinking of using one of these. I have both PHP and Java installed on my machine. In theory I could use any of the two.

What are the compelling arguments to pick Phing over Ant?

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