[Rant-cafe] Rant is great - how can I help?

[Jon Willesen]

I've been looking at replacing our C++ make system at work and I'd  
really like to use Rant because it has a great feature set for  
building C++ projects.  I think the ruby based build systems hit a  
sweetspot where they are flexible and powerful without being overly  
heavy and difficult to learn.

Based on the total lack of response to Russel Winder's emails, it  
seems like Rant is on the verge of suffering a total existence  
failure.  I'd really like to keep Rant alive in some form, since Rake  
doesn't do what I need.  I recently reported a bug, and I'll probably  
take a shot at fixing it, even though I'm only a novice rubyist.  Is  
there any hope of merging Rake and Rant into a unified tool so they  
don't have to compete with each other, let alone all the other build  
systems out there?  What can I do to help to keep Rant around?

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Jon Willesen