walk VS please

Compare walk vs please and see what are their differences.

walk

A fast, general purpose, graph based build and task execution utility. (by ejholmes)

please

High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds. (by thought-machine)
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walk please
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137 2,404
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0.0 9.3
over 4 years ago 5 days ago
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MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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/)

please

Posts with mentions or reviews of please. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

bazel-diff - Performs Bazel Target Diffing between two revisions in Git, allowing for Test Target Selection and Selective Building

Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.

pants - The Pants Build System

nq - Unix command line queue utility

example-bazel-monorepo - πŸŒΏπŸ’š Example Bazel-ified monorepo, supporting Golang, Java, Python, Scala, and Typescript

tup - Tup is a file-based build system.

buck-converters - My collection of buck converter circuits

bobc - Remote cache for https://bob.build

Builder - Next-Gen Builder

buildtools - A bazel BUILD file formatter and editor

parker - πŸ€ package the workdir into a lightweight container runtime that can be executed directly.