From: Max Ischenko <max@...>
Date: 2001-12-21T17:31:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29208] Re: Ruby 'make' replacement (Re: stderr from external process?)


>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.

Please take a look at bras.
http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome

I'm using it about a year and really nice and powerful substitution for
make. If you won't like it you may find some ideas in it's ref. manual.

>> My idea is to describe targets as instances of some classes that have
>> to logic to build themselves appropriately ("CppLib" class, "Jar"
>> class, whatever ...) Those objects need to be related together with
>> dependency links. Some "vaporware" code to illustrate this:


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