[CMake] Raven, Antwrap, Buildr

[Brandon Van Every]

http://raven.rubyforge.org/

O'Reilly OnJava.com has a recent article introducing Raven, a JRuby
based build tool for Java.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/12/05/introducing-raven-an-elegant-build-for-java.html
The article is very intro.  It doesn't demonstrate any payoffs for
using Ruby as opposed to other scripting languages like CMake script.
Raven is gaining notoriety in the Java world, however, because it is
offering scriptability for the build system where Ant and Maven do
not.

The end of the article briefly mentions 2 other Ruby-based build tools
that are trying to solve Java build problems, with different
approaches than Raven.
http://antwrap.rubyforge.org/
http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/

I intend to find out if any of these tools have been used for large
projects, and if they exist, whether Ruby has demonstrated any
remarkable advantages.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every