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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
