From: Nick Sabalausky <hmcfryxhbmyac@...>
Date: 2010-02-09T18:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-based equivalent to SCons?

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Jason Roelofs wrote:
>> Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing 
>> common
>> tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a 
>> C/C++
>> build tool.
> 
> Rake can be a build tool too.  Some Java developers are using it instead 
> of Ant.
> 
>> 
>> For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff 
>> for
>> you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been 
>> setup.rb or
>> doing it yourself.
>> 

Thanks, all. Rake seems to be working fine for my current purpose 
(automating the build process for a somewhat complex 
HaxePHP/HaxeFlash/swfmill/misc-custom-tools project). As a bonus it's 
also giving me a good feel for Ruby.
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