[LRUG] November talk proposal

[Paul Battley]

On 11 October 2012 11:12, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:
>> I wish it were that simple.  However, the only way to make it as trivial as you'd like is to insist that every bit of software on your system sits within a single consistent set of dependencies, and that's just not practical if you're developing software.

Well, no, I'm just suggesting that tools that have complex
dependencies might be better avoided where there are mature
equivalents, and I think that Rake falls into that category. I suspect
that the purported benefit of Rake, of being able to write whole
chunks of Ruby to define your dependencies, is an antipattern.

Then again, I've seen people write some pretty gnarly Makefiles, so
maybe I'm just wrong.

Paul.