On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jim Weirich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it, there are two requests here. > > (1) Change the name of rakelib to rake (or maybe just added rake in > addition to rakelib?) > (2) Allow the omission of the Rakefile if rake (or rakelib?) is present. > > On (1), I am disinclined to change the name of rakelib (or add > additional redundant functionality) in the absence of a compelling > reason to do so. I believe the reason you assert if merely a > preference for the shorter name, correct?
I can understand not changing it --no reason to break backward compatibility, but adding it as an alternative, it seems to me, can only be advantageous. It's not reasonless. Aesthetics is a vital aspect of ease of use. Clearly, this can be subjective and it is impossible to please everyone, but rake/ seems a very reasonable --even obvious, option, to me. It much like supporting Rakefile or rakefile.rb. So I hope you won't dismiss it simply because it is "merely" a question of aesthetics. That has value too. > On (2), this is a more interesting proposal. I'm not sure I would use > the feature myself, but if there is a wider desire amoung rake users > for this, I might consider it. > > Fair 'nuff? That's quite fair. Thank you. I hope the pulse of Rake users will prove favorable. Thanks Jim, T. _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
