RAA - rant/0.3.0

This is the first release of Rant.

From the documentation:

Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby, similar to Rake.

The equivalent to a Makefile for make is the Rantfile. An Rantfile is actually a valid Ruby script that is read by the rant command.

Rant currently features:

• Defining custom tasks
• Automated packaging, testing and RDoc generation for Ruby

  applications and libraries.

• Primitive support for compiling C# sources portably with csc, cscc

  and mcs.

• A configure plugin for easy environment and build-parameter

  checking (but not like autoconf!) which saves data in a yaml file.

• The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script,

  so you don’t depend on an rant installation anymore.

As programmers usually want to see code, here is a short and very basic example of rant usage:

A file called Rantfile contains the code:

    file "backup/data" => "data" do |t|         sys.cp "data", t.name     end

Running rant in the directory of this file:

    % rant     cp data backup/data

will ensure that the "data" file in the "backup" directory is up to date.

Installing Rant

You can install Rant as a RubyGem:     % gem install -r rant

or download the package from RubyForge(rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615) and install with setup.rb:         % ruby setup.rb

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