[Rant-cafe] rant and rake

[Steven Shaw]

On 05/12/06, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:15 +0000, Steven Shaw wrote:
> > Hi. Would you mind comparing rant with rake.
>
> The nutshell version is that Rake is very fine and infinitely superior
> to Make, and that Rant is everything that Rake is plus a lot more.  The
> idea of generators make Rant just a whole lot better than Rake.

What are generators in this context?

> The problem with Rant is it needs some more active people developing
> library features so as to grow and emulate the user population of SCons.
> For me the `players' in the build game are Ant, Maven and Gant in the
> Java/Groovy arena and Rant, SCons and Waf elsewhere.

Yes, I've come across all these. Waf was just in the last couple of
days as I found cmake and it led me to it! Waf seems to be a scons
rip-off. I don't understand why the fork happened there.

Those KDE folks have switched to cmake. If I was still doing C/C++
development I think I'd go with scons but I'd be always hoping for a
Ruby alternative. I really like Rake and but hoped to find a project
that also have automake/autoconf type abilities.

Cheers,
Steve.