I'm sure that make /could/ be used, as well as ANT.
But Rake is so vastly superior to either of them that
I welcome its use in any project.
The first time you need to do something really
"interesting" (loops, conditonals, subroutines,
dynamically constructed tasks), you'll welcome
the move to Rake.
Evan Weaver wrote:
I didn't realize that the current Ant system was so troublesome for people.
Personally, I don't think being self-hosted has much real benefit
especially since the JVM will remain as a dependency :).
Any reason plain old 'make' couldn't be used?
Evan
On 10/23/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Evan Weaver wrote:
Not to step out of my place, but I saw the tickets and patch for the
Rake build system ( http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-1449 ) and
don't understand the benefit of the additional complexity.
What do other people think?
If it's *more* complicated than building with Ant, then it would
certainly not be worth it.
But ultimately, there's a couple things we hope to gain:
- dogfooding
- simplify the build so it doesn't suck as bad as Ant/Maven
- claim we're "self hosting" since we can build with ourselves
- Charlie
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