The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

Post by ratboy666 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #205

ajross wrote: post #189

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Like, for example? To be serious, those are sort of contrived. "Sending a notification" isn't something you want to be managing as state at all. What you probably mean is that you want to send that notification once, on an "official" build. And that requires storing the fact that the notification was sent and a timestamp somewhere (like, heh, a file). And as for building into a database... that just seems weird to me…

I need to send an email every time a log file updates, just the tail, simple make file: send: foo.log tail foo.log | email watch make send Crap, it keeps sending it. Ok, so you work out some scheme involving temporary files which act as guards against duplicate processing. Or you write a script which conditionally sends the email by storing the hash of the previous transmission and comparing it against the hash of th…

Post by wbkang » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

nzoschke wrote: post #91

I’ve had a lot of fun recently writing a Makefile for a Go and Lambda app: https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas/blob/master/Makefile It started very verbose, one target for every Go program, until I figured out target patterns. I’m also enjoying the -j flag to do things in parallel. Now it’s 3 lines of Make to build 10 go programs in parallel in seconds. Parallel is also enough job control to run the development server…

Post by flavio81 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:10 PM UTC

hzhou321 wrote: post #198

neonscribe wrote: post #178

I used make heavily in the 80s and 90s, but haven't much since then. Recently I started a project that had source files getting processed into PDF files, for use by humans. Since this is the 21st century, those files have spaces in their names. At a certain point, I realized that I should be managing this processing somehow, so I thought of using a simple Makefile. A little searching reveals that the consensus on usi…

Demanding the support of spaces in filenames significantly complicates code as simple space delimination no longer works and other delimination schemes are much more error prone -- forgetting balancing quotes, any one? While you are allowing spaces, you probabaly are allowing all possible code points or maybe even a null byte? Thinking about it gives me headaches. I hate hearing people using 21st century or modern as…

Post by gonvaled » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:12 PM UTC

debaserab2 wrote: post #209

hzhou321 wrote: post #198

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Demanding the support of spaces in filenames significantly complicates code as simple space delimination no longer works and other delimination schemes are much more error prone -- forgetting balancing quotes, any one? While you are allowing spaces, you probabaly are allowing all possible code points or maybe even a null byte? Thinking about it gives me headaches. I hate hearing people using 21st century or modern as…

What does the merit of spaces in file names matter? You still will need to deal with files with spaces in the real world. If your tooling doesn't support it, it's a non-starter for many.

Post by makmanalp » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #197

makmanalp wrote: post #191

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What about, for example, a source file that needs to be downloaded and diffed from the web? What about when you need to pull stuff from a database? You can hack your way around but it's not the most fun.

WRT the web file, curl can be run and only download a file if the file has been modified after the file on disk. DB are harder (yet possible) but not a common request that I’ve seen.