[Rant-cafe] rant and rake

[Russel Winder]

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.

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. 

Personally I am doing stuff with LaTeX builds in Rant, it is getting
close to publishable, I just need to write the test suite

> Also I noticed that the Configure is deprecated. Are you planning on
> autoconf type of stuff?

Again it is a question of people chipping material into the Rant
library.  I have been tinkering with bits and pieces to do some aspects
of packaging pkg-config and things like that but don't have anything
publishable.  SCons has problems with this as well, Waf is further down
the road.
-- 
Russel.
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