From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-05-16T01:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rant 0.3.8

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Stefan Lang wrote:

> Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby,
> similar to Rake.
>
> =3D=3D What's new in this release?
>
> * Dependency checking for C/C++ sources.
> * Installing ".cmd" files on Windows with the Win32::RubyCmdWrapper.
> * Convenient directory/file creation with SubFile.
> * rant-import inlines specially marked, +require+ files.
>
> I'd appreciate suggestions about new features, names, etc.
>
> =3D=3D Installing Rant
>
> You can install Rant as a RubyGem:
> =A0 =A0 % gem install --remote rant
>
> or download the package from RubyForge(http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=
> =3D615)
> and install with install.rb:
> =A0 =A0 % ruby install.rb
>
> =3D=3D More about Rant
>
> The equivalent to a Makefile for make is the Rantfile. An
> Rantfile is actually a valid Ruby script that is read by the
> rant command.
>
> Rant currently features:
> * Defining custom tasks
> * Automated packaging, testing and RDoc generation for Ruby
> =A0 applications and libraries.
> * Primitive support for compiling C# sources portably with csc, cscc
> =A0 and mcs.
> * Dependency checking for C/C++ source files.
> * Multiple buildfiles (e.g. one per directory).
> * The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script,
> =A0 so you don't depend on an rant installation anymore.
> * A configure plugin for easy environment and build-parameter
> =A0 checking (but not like autoconf!) which saves data in a yaml file.
>
> =3D=3D Resources
>
> Current docs:: http://make.ruby-co.de
> (BTW: Thanks to Jan Krueger for the nice URL :-)
> Rubyforge page:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/make/
>
> =2D-=20
> Stefan

this looks very cool.  can you compare/contrast this with rake?

cheers.

-a
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