From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-09-20T23:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Hoe 1.0 released

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Ryan Davis wrote:

> Farmer Ted came to me the other day with a problem. He has about 10 different 
> packages he wants to work on and periodically release, but sometimes it seems 
> to him that maintaining a threshing machine is easier than it is maintaining 
> all his Rakefiles and gemspecs. Most of his rakefiles are duplicated in every 
> project yet differ slightly everywhere. His deployment rules that enhanced in 
> one place and go stale in another. So I showed him another tool to help: Hoe!
>
> Hoe is a tool that covers all the usual stuff you have in a project: 
> documentation, testing, version compatibility (through multiruby), packaging, 
> deployment, cleanup, and more. In fact, this:

How does the use case for Hoe differ from REAP?

http://reap.rubyforge.org/

Since REAP tasks can be used as rake tasks, there seems to me to be a lot 
of overlap between the two projects.  Yes?  No?


Kirk Haines