[Rant] Survey

Lionel Thiry lthiry at skynet.be
Fri Jul 22 18:17:38 EDT 2005


Stefan Lang a écrit :

>Hello,
>
>It seems that I have some spare time which I intend to
>invest in Rant development :)
>So I have to decide which features I should concentrate on.
>The following is a list of features I think of:
>
>* More (and fully portable) support for C/C++, similar to SCons:
>  e.g. compile a program
>  
>    gen Program, "foo", ["main.c", "foo.c"]
>
>  would create main.o, foo.o and foo on Posix with gcc
>  and main.obj, foo.obj and foo.exe on Windows with MSVC++.
>  Similar syntax for static and shared libraries.
>
>* Optional recognition of file changes with MD5 checksums
>  instead of file modification times.
>
>* Basic support for OCaml
>
>* Scaffolding for Ruby projects
>  e.g. with a new command called rant-admin:
>
>    % rant-admin create ruby
>
>  asks some questions then creates directories/files,
>  eventuelly module, test and bin/*.rb stubs and an
>  Rantfile with package, rdoc, testing and install tasks.
>
>* Improve C# support
>
>* Ruby 1.6.8 compatibility
>
>Please let me know what you would like to see implemented
>(doesn't need to be on the list above :).
>
>Should I create a survey on RubyForge and post to ruby-talk?
>
>Thanks,
>  Stefan
>  
>
md5 checksum for file change recognition is important to me.

Can you elaborate about the scaffolding?

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Lionel Thiry

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