From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T02:26:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Hoe 1.0 released


On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:15 AM, khaines@enigo.com wrote:

> How does the use case for Hoe differ from REAP?
> http://reap.rubyforge.org/

Farmer Ted likes simplicity and clarity, not obfuscation and bulk:

% find hoe -type f | grep -v svn | xargs wc -l | tail -1
      345 total

% find reap-6.0.2 -type f | xargs wc -l | tail -1
    16301 total
% find facets-1.7.46 -type f | xargs wc -l | tail -1
    67091 total

> 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?

no, there is very little overlap, because my project is so small.