From langstefan at gmx.at  Mon Mar  6 13:43:56 2006
From: langstefan at gmx.at (Stefan Lang)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:43:56 +0100
Subject: [Rant] Fwd: Re: Rant and large projects
Message-ID: <200603061943.56497.langstefan@gmx.at>



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Subject: Re: Rant and large projects
Date: Sunday 05 March 2006 16:42
From: Stefan Lang <langstefan at gmx.at>
To: "Mikkel Fahn?e J?rgensen" <mikkelfj at gmail.com>

On Sunday 05 March 2006 16:16, you wrote:
> Stefan: I only discovered rant yesterday
> I was wondering if it made sense to integrate Components with Rant.

Perhaps. I'll look into it when I have the time. Currently I'm a bit
busy with other things and I'm ill also :(
If you can figure out the weird Rant internals you can try yourself,
of course. A nice thing is that Rant doesn't need a new process for
each Rant project, at least if the Rantfiles are carefully designed.

> I'm buing into OMake (omake.metaprl.org) - but I have some issues -
> like I'm spending way to much time on simple things - so I'm
> evaluating Rant and reevaluating SCons. Rant looks great so far -
> although some features are missing - and my initial test did not
> correctly trigger rebuild when I changed build parameters (that is
> a showstopper).

Most probably you want to use a Command task instead of a normal file
task. A normal file task recognizes only changes in prerequisites.
The Command task also recognizes changes in the command used to build
a file. Read:
http://make.rubyforge.org/files/doc/command_rdoc.html

Regards,
  Stefan

P.S.: Would you mind If send a copy of this mail to the Rant
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