Re: [ANN] Lake 1.2, a Lua-based Build Tool

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Gour <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:
> Excuse me for asking...this is the first time I've heard about Lake and
> I'm very new to Lua to which I was brought via premake, so wonder how
> does it Lake compare with it?

I don't have experience with premake, but there are a number of people
here who are very happy with it; it is mature and does the job. Lake
is a different animal which executes build rules and handles
dependencies directly, instead of creating makefiles.  It is also
still young and untested on big projects, so I would recommend staying
with premake if it does the job.

The main thing is that you are now using Lua ;)

That being said, it would be straightforward to teach Lake about D,
although I'd prefer to make it extensible enough that people could
download a D language plugin for it.

steve d.