From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T12:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rant 0.3.2

Quoting lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be, on Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:44:41AM +0900:
> Jim Weirich a �crit :
> >>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.  

I'm a little surprised, I though rake was supposed to be make, but with
the rules written in ruby, and maintaining file dependecies is all make
does well.

What does it mean to not maintain dependencies? What doesn't it do? If
I say (with gmake notation):

  a: b.o

  %.o:%.c

  %.c: %.lex

Will rake not figure out how to make a out of b.lex, or are you guys
talking about something else?

Cheers,
Sam