From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T21:04:54+09:00
Subject: Re: XML2RB - Executing XML

> Now, I don't want to start a flame, but for me Ant follows
> quite well the principle: "let simple things be simple, and
> make complex things possible".

Since I would rather say "Ant makes simple things complex and
complex things impossible.", I'm looking forward to your
motivation.

(Don't get me wrong. I don't want to offend you. I'm just
curious.)

> ... but till now I haven't found any good alternatives.

Rake? Ruby? It's not that hard to reimplement Ants
functionality in Ruby. It's usually a good idea to build a DSL
on top of a GPL, so all common stuff in a language (conditions
and loops) is readily available.

Don't start from scratch if you're about to implement a DSL.
You'll either have to reinvent a lot of wheels, or you just
forget about the wheels and start driving the car without them.

Ant is built from scratch. They skipped the wheels.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/