From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T03:38:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake 0.6.0 Released

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 15:56, Stu George wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:44:43 +0900, Jim Weirich
> <jim@weirichhouse.org>
>
> wrote:
> >= Rake 0.6.0 Released
> >
> >Its time for some long requested enhancements and lots of bug
> > fixes .. And a whole new web page.
>
> hiya, a dumb question, what is the difference between rant and
> rake? they look the same?

Sorry for replying so late. Generally, it's possible to convert
a Rakefile to an Rantfile without much work. AFAIK Rant has
all major features of Rake plus:

* Optional use of MD5 checksums instead of timestamps.
* Easy and portable tgz/zip file creation on Linux/MacOS X/Windows
  (and probably most other platforms where ruby runs).
* Create a script, tailored to the needs of a project, which
  can be used instead of an Rant installation
  => Distribute this script with your project and users
     and other developers don't need an Rant installation.
* It is possible to split up the build specification into
  multiple files in different directories.
  (=> no such thing as "recursive make" necessary).
  This feature will be highly improved with the next release.
* and a few more...

Kind regards,
  Stefan