From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T06:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rant 0.3.2

Stefan Lang a �crit :
> On Sunday 03 April 2005 19:23, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>>On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Stefan Lang wrote:
>>
>>>Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby,
>>>similar to Rake.
>>
>>Could you expand on that a little bit more? What are some of the
>>differences between Rake and Rant? From the name it sounds like the
>>relationship might be "Rake is to Make as Rant is to Ant", but that's
>>just a shot in the dark.
>>
>>- Jamis
> 
> 
> During development I use the following build tools as reference:
> * Ant (Java)

Following your code samples, I must tell I feel it hard to see where Rant is 
affiliated with Ant.

> * Nant (C#)
> * make
> * SCons (Python)

I'm really curious here: what have you borrowed from SCons? Does Rant use a 
directed acyclic graph for managing file dependencies? (AFAIK it's the main 
mechanism of SCons internals)

> * Rake
 >
 > [snip]
 >

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Lionel Thiry