From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@...>
Date: 2003-03-15T19:27:47+09:00
Subject: Re: The onion truck strikes again ... Announcing rake

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:56:35PM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:

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> What am I talking about? ... A Ruby version of Make.
> 
> See, I can sense you cringing already, and I agree.  The world certainly
> doesn't need yet another reworking of the "make" program.  I mean, we
> already have "ant".  Isn't that enough?
> 
> It started yesterday.  I was helping a coworker fix a problem in one of
> the Makefiles we use in our project.  Not a particularly tough problem,
> but during the course of the conversation I began lamenting some of the
> shortcomings of make.  In particular, in one of my makefiles I wanted to
> determine the name of a file dynamically and had to resort to some
> simple scripting (in Ruby) to make it work.  "Wouldn't it be nice if you
> could just use Ruby inside a Makefile" I said.

At the risk of sounding blasphemous, how about Python?  :-)

http://www.a-a-p.org/ for more details.

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Regards,
Doug