RAA - rant/0.4.8

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

Please read the NEWS at make.ruby-co.de for a list of changes.

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.
• Splitting up your buildfiles and placing them in multiple directories.
• Optional recognition of file changes based on MD5 checksums instead of file modification times.
• Primitive support for compiling C# sources portably with csc, cscc and mcs.
• Dependency checking for C/C++ sources.
• Creation of zip and gzipped tar archives on all supported platforms (Linux/Unix, MacOS, Windows) without extra software.
• The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script, so you don’t depend on an rant installation anymore.
• Tasks with command change recognition.
• A configure plugin for easy environment and build-parameter checking (but not like autoconf!) which saves data in a yaml file.

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 install.rb:

        % ruby install.rb

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