From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T02:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as a configuration language

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Tapio Kelloniemi <no@such.thing> wrote:
>> I'm writing an automated software building framework in Ruby. The software
>> compiles software packages from source code using human-written profiles. The
>> profiles should be extremely easy to read and write by humans (and easy to
> [snip]
> 
> There is a Ruby replacement of make, that can give you some
> inspiration on how to do it. Perhaps rake can do all what you want?
> http://rake.rubyforge.org/

I agree. If you're going to build a DSL for your particular domain, I 
suggest building it atop Rake. Stand on the shoulders of this jolly Red 
giant.

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