Using Ant / Ivy

Is it possible to use Ant / Ivy as your build mechanism for Spring Roo projects? I know there is a JIRA for this, (JIRA 91), which I have voted for, but this appears to have been muscled off the road map at some point. Will there be any plans to implement this in the near future?

In the meantime, is there any guidance available on a workaround for non Maven users, or is Roo simply unusable without Maven? I have seen some suggestion that we need to implement a new PathResolver - I'm thinking there should be an existing extension point for this that I can use to plug in my custom PathResolver but can't find any guidance on this, and the documentation section has not ye been completed.

Can anyone help......? :) I'm very keen to use Roo bu this is a showstopper for me.....:(