From: Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T06:09:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] noe 1.0.0 Released!

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Different needs, different tools. What about non-ruby projects?

Thanks for reporting the deprecated usage of GemPackageTask!

B

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2011, at 09:00, Bernard Lambeau wrote:
> > noe version 1.0.0 has been released !
> >
> > * <*http://github.com/blambeau/n <http://github.com/blambeau/quickl>oe*>
> > * <https://rubygems.org/gems/n <https://rubygems.org/gems/quickl>oe>
> >
> > Noe helps development by providing support for project templates and
> > instantiation.
> > Differences with similar projects you may already know:
> >
> > * Noe is agnostic: it does not make any assumption about project
> semantics
> > * Noe does not restrict itself to generation of ruby projects
> > * Noe is not required at runtime: once your project is generated you're
> done
>
> There's a big problem with this.
>
> If the rake task generators you use incompatibly change you need to update
> every project you've generated with noe by hand.
>
> By using a library you do not have this problem, you simply upgrade the
> library and you're done.
>
> I have well over fifty ruby projects.  While I know that's abnormal, having
> to manually update even 10 projects was annoying.
>
> PS:  Rake::GemPackageTask is deprecated in favor of Gem::PackageTask.
>

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