Re: I don't want to learn python for my makefiles or cons development (again) or future of cons (again)

"Wayne Scott" <[email protected]> Mon, 8 May 2006 06:22:22 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.cons.general
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On 5/8/06, Erik Wasser <[email protected]> wrote:

> > http://rake.rubyforge.org/
>
> Thanks for this. I knew a little ruby (but more than python) so I think
> I will take rake instead of scons. (If we don't bring cons back to
> life.)

Unless they are hiding all the interesting stuff on their webpage,
rake doesn't do any of the checksum build signatures that came from
cons.  The syntax looks nice so I have considered working underneath
and adding the plumbing I put in cons that allow redundant builds to
be truncated early or add con's derived object caching.

-Wayne


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