Jason Roelofs wrote:
> Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing 
> common
> tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a 
> C/C++
> build tool.

Rake can be a build tool too.  Some Java developers are using it instead 
of Ant.

> 
> For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff 
> for
> you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been 
> setup.rb or
> doing it yourself.
> 
> Jason

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