From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T02:53:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] codeforpeople's rubyforge 0.2.0 released


On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Bil Kleb wrote:

> Ryan Davis wrote:
>> We have a lot of plans for this library. Next on the list is to be  
>> able to specify multiple files to release all at once, error  
>> checking, and a much more powerful configuration system.
>
> Can someone compare/contrast this library with Aslak
> and Austin's MetaProject (http://xforge.rubyforge.org/)?

metaproject is big to the point of obfuscation and intimidation (to  
me). I wanted to automate deployment. That is it. Ara's code shines  
with clarity of thought and we glommed onto it immediately. It was  
relatively tiny, did one thing, and did it rather well. Now it does  
it better. :)