The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

Post by anthk » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

dozzie wrote: post #428

geezerjay wrote: post #418

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> A row in a relational database, for example, is not a file, even in unix. Says who? Nothing stops you from creating an interface that maps that row to a file. That's the whole point of Unix. Heck, look at the /proc filesystem tree. Even cpu sensor data is available as a file.

Ha, even eth0 is a file! You can open a network connection by opening this file! Erm... no, that doesn't work. Then a process! You spawn a process by opening a file! Erm... again, no. You want me to continue?

Post by gkya » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #439

gkya wrote: post #363

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Spaces in filenames create troubles with almost every command line tool. cut(1), awk(1), find(1), xargs(1), what not. How do you quote them, do you need to use \0 as a separator instead, do other commands on the pipeline support \0 separators? What happens after a couple expansions, passing stuff from one script to another? And what the heck happened on 31 dec 1999 that the world became a different place where sudden…

> Spaces in filenames create troubles with almost every command line tool Then that's a shortcoming which should be addressed with the tools, because humans everywhere use spaces in filenames. For every command-line tool I make (Windows & Linux), I ensure it handles such trivial use-cases. I can't see why such a simple task is seemingly impossible to get done in GNU coreutils.

Post by lisper » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

ori_b wrote: post #484

lisper wrote: post #476

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> You'd have to do something like: That's exactly right, but notice that you are not actually using make at all any more at this point, except as a vehicle to run check_query.sh && doaction which is doing all work.

It's being used to manage the ordering of that with other rules, and to run independent steps in parallel.

Post by ori_b » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #485

ori_b wrote: post #484

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It's being used to manage the ordering of that with other rules, and to run independent steps in parallel.

OK. So here's a scenario: I have a DB table that keeps track of email notifications sent out. There is a column for the address that the email was sent to, and another for the time at which the email was sent. A second table keeps track of replies (e.g. clicks on an embedded link in the email). Feel free to assume additional columns (e.g. unique ids) as needed. When some particular event occurs, I want the following…

Post by dblotsky » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

s_chaudhary wrote: post #488

I searched and didn't find a single soul using Makefile to orchestrate a set of build steps. I have been doing that for a long time: `make test`, `make build_docker`, `make push_docker`, `make deploy`. Now suddenly everyone shows up in one place here. Long live HN.