Chris Pearl wrote: > Rake seems to be used widely and extensively. Rails uses it pretty > extensively, as do quite a few of the tools I'm currently reviewing > for the purposes of another thread [1]. > > So what about Rant [2]? It's certainly not dead: latest release was on > November 17, 2006. And it is claimed to be more featureful than Rake > [3]. > > Where is Rant being used (if at all)? Why does Rake seem to be the > overwhelming choice? > I use rant all time time for building C apps and such and have ran into only 1 issue (its on the rant bugtracker), other than that its rock solid. I dont use rake so cant comment over it. Rant does all I need it to do. I dont consider it not production quality despite its version numbering. -stu