common vs CS Make

common

Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos. (by containers)

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common		CS Make
	Project
4	Mentions	-
161	Stars	120
1.2%	Growth	-0.8%
9.7	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	over 8 years ago
Go	Language	C#
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

common

Posts with mentions or reviews of common. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

Improve Jupyter Notebook Reruns by Caching Cells
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2023

Dockerfile and Containerfile also cache outputs as layers.
`docker build --layers` is the default: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-build.1.htm...
container/common//docs/Containerfile.5.md: https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containe...
Is it possible to generate the default `containers.conf`?
1 project | /r/podman | 3 Mar 2023

https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/pkg/config/containers.conf ? But it's empty save for the comments, since it's supposed to be customized by your distribution. Still, starting point.
buildah/podman overlay on build context
1 project | /r/podman | 26 Nov 2022

Argh, the fix is rw on the mount line, not ro=false. This is missing from the documentation (https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containerfile.5.md).
File contents intermediate layers from building
1 project | /r/podman | 2 Mar 2022

A good resource to start is the Containerfile man page.

CS Make

Posts with mentions or reviews of CS Make. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning CS Make yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing common and CS Make you can also consider the following projects:

Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell

MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.

metatar - Manipulate tar file metadata, list tar files or convert tar to cpio. For some projects, this can replace fakeroot and cpio, when creating an initrd image that is compatible with the Linux kernel. Used in production in at least one company.

FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.

Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.

NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET

FAKE - FAKE - F# Make

Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell