From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T11:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rant 0.3.2

On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:49 pm, Lionel Thiry wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull a �crit :
> > Lionel Thiry, April 4:
> >>I'm really curious here: what have you borrowed from SCons? Does Rant
> >>use a directed acyclic graph for managing file dependencies?
> >
> > Isn't that what all dependency-management systems use?,
> >         nikolai
>
> Uh, well... no.
>
> For exemple, AFAIK Rake doesn't manage file dependcies, 

If by managing file dependencies you mean automatically detect and maintain 
the file dependencies, you are correct.  But it is easy to get other tools to 
work with rake to do that.  

> and task dependencies are not managed with a DAG.

Actually they are.  Ok, there are no checks to enforce the acyclic nature of 
the dependency graph, but the arcs of the graph are certainly directed.

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