From: Michael Cook <michael.cook@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T02:58:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28970] Re: Ruby 'make' replacement (stderr from external process?)

Stefan Schmiedl <s@xss.de> writes:

> Christian Boos (2001-12-20 01:57):
>> I am planning to work on a 'make' replacement tool (written in
>> Ruby of course) in the following weeks. Not much work done yet. I
>> just wanted to see if there is some interest/existing work in the
>> community on this subject.
>
> take a look at the Ant projekt, originating from apache.  it's an
> xml-based make replacement.  you might want to consider being
> ant.xml compatible.

see also cons, which is a make alternative written in perl.
http://www.dsmit.com/cons/