walk VS cache_box_rb

Compare walk vs cache_box_rb and see what are their differences.

walk

A fast, general purpose, graph based build and task execution utility. (by ejholmes)
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walk cache_box_rb
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over 4 years ago -
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walk

Posts with mentions or reviews of walk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-28.
  • Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
    Not impressed by shell incantations. What would sell such a tool to me is a feature to replace those with new and more intuitive syntax.

    Holding on to how things are done in the shell is not a thing to be proud of. I think a lot of us around here stopped counting the times we got tripped by globbing, forgetting or misplacing one special character in a ${} block, or quoting.

    Let those monstrosities die already. Please.

    There's this tool -- https://github.com/ejholmes/walk -- that is pretty good and I liked it but dropped it for the same reasons: it leaves the heavy lifting to you and it depends on your mastery in the black arts.

    Now obviously I'm not managing huge projects but nowadays https://github.com/casey/just serves me just fine for everything I need.

  • Nq – a simple Unix job queue system
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2021
    Check out walk[1]. It does exactly this. Lets you define a graph of dependencies in any language of your choice.

    [1](https://github.com/ejholmes/walk/)

cache_box_rb

Posts with mentions or reviews of cache_box_rb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-26.
  • Nq – a simple Unix job queue system
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2021
    Slightly related to this, I'm building a ruby gem that lets you create such a workflow:

    https://gitlab.com/sdwolfz/cache_box_rb

    I guess some slight tweaks for task persitance and a CLI wrapper for it could let you achieve this (although I don't leverage Ractors so no true parallelism yet).

    Anyway, it still does not have an "official" release, nor a stable API, although the code works well and it's fully tested, as far a I can tell. I might consider providing such wrapper myself in the future as I can definitely see it's utility, but time is short nowadays.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing walk and cache_box_rb you can also consider the following projects:

redo-c - An implementation of the redo build system in portable C with zero dependencies

nq - Unix command line queue utility

Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.

openssh-jman - Japanese translation of OpenSSH manual pages

please - High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.

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