From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-09-21T03:26:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Hoe 1.0 released

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ryan Davis wrote:

>
> 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.

At least compare apples to apples there.

% find reap-6.0.2/lib/ -type f -name "*.rb" | xargs wc -l | tail -1
    3191 total
% find rake-0.7.1/lib/ -type f -name "*.rb" | xargs wc -l | tail -1
    3201 total

The discussion of what the actual line counts of the projects are, though, 
seems to be a diversion away from my question.

I am actually interested in where capabilities between reap and rake+hoe 
overlap and differ, and I figured that you must have looked at reap before 
writing your own set of tools and would have some constructive thoughts on 
the differences.


Thanks,

Kirk Haines