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

Doug Alcorn <[email protected]> Mon, 8 May 2006 08:05:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.cons.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 8, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Wayne Scott 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.

True, I don't think rake's goals were as lofty as cons/scons.  I use  
rake mainly for automating repetitive tasks for my project and less  
as a "build tool".  Since all my programming is in ruby these days, I  
don't really build anything anymore.  Rake let's me do simple  
automation using my favorite language: ruby!
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