Re: I don't want to learn python for my makefiles or cons development (again) or future of cons (again)

[Wayne Scott]

On 5/8/06, Erik Wasser <address@hidden> wrote:

> > http://rake.rubyforge.org/
>
> Thanks for this. I knew a little ruby (but more than python) so I think
> I will take rake instead of scons. (If we don't bring cons back to
> life.)

Unless they are hiding all the interesting stuff on their webpage,
rake doesn't do any of the checksum build signatures that came from
cons.  The syntax looks nice so I have considered working underneath
and adding the plumbing I put in cons that allow redundant builds to
be truncated early or add con's derived object caching.

-Wayne