On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assaf's parametrized idea seems like the "proper" way to do this, but I
> don't like the syntax. At least to my eye, shell:jirb is *much* nicer and
> more consistent with the "Buildr philosphy" than shell[jirb]. Besides, the
> former is marginally easier to type.
I feel the same way. I'm curious to see if many Rake-based projects will
adopt this new convention.
> We could use your multiple-tasks idea without too much hardship in the
> implementation. I've got all the providers in a Hash, so a simple .each {
> |lang, prov| define_task ... } should be sufficient. I'm fine with doing
> it
> this way as long as y'all are ok with it. :-)
One precedent I can think of is the form "buildr test:SomeTest", which I
like so I'm supportive of following our existing convention.
alex
