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tup
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Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python
Whenever looking at one these, I think back to the obscure but interesting "tup":
“How is it so awesome? In a typical build system, the dependency arrows go down. Although this is the way they would naturally go due to gravity, it is unfortunately also where the enemy's gate is. This makes it very inefficient and unfriendly. In tup, the arrows go up.”
https://gittup.org/tup/
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Mazzle – A Pipelines as Code Tool
Once upon a time, you could roll your own of this using `tup` which might have my favorite "how it works" in the readme:
How is it so awesome?
In a typical build system, the dependency arrows go down. Although this is the way they would naturally go due to gravity, it is unfortunately also where the enemy's gate is. This makes it very inefficient and unfriendly. In tup, the arrows go up. This is obviously true because it rhymes. See how the dependencies differ in make and tup:
[ Make vs. Tup ]
See the difference? The arrows go up. This makes it very fast.
https://gittup.org/tup/
Also has a whitepaper: https://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf
- Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs
- Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf]
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What should I use to take notes in college?
Ten years ago, I used reStructuredText and its support for LaTeX math and syntax highlighting. I used tup (tup monitor -a -f) to take care of running rst2html on save.
- Knit: Making a Better Make
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Buck2: Our open source build system
I might be showing my ignorance here, but this just sounds like Tup? https://gittup.org/tup/
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Small Project Build Systems (2021)
I agree. While I like the idea of tup (https://gittup.org/tup/ -- the first "forward" build system I remember hearing of), writing a makefile is easy enough that thinking about the problem upside-down doesn't offer a compelling reason to switch.
Ptrace is one option for tracing dependencies, but it comes with a performance hit. A low-level alternative would be ftrace (https://lwn.net/Articles/608497/) or dtrace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace).
Tup uses LD_PRELOAD (or equivalent) to intercept calls to C file i/o functions. On OSX it looks DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES would be the equivalent.
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Why Use Make
* order-only prerequisites - X must happen before Y if it's happening but a change in X doesn't trigger Y
This is just a small selection and there are missing things (like how to handle rules that affect multiple targets).
It's all horrible and complex because like a lot of languages there's a manual listing the features but not much in the way of motivations for how or why you'd use them so you have to find that out by painful experience.
It's also very difficult to address the warts and problems in (GNU) make because it's so critical to the build systems of so many packages that any breaking change could end up being a disaster for 1000s of packages used in your favorite linux distribution or even bits of Android and so on.
So it's in a very constrained situation BECAUSE of it's "popularity".
Make is also not a good way to logically describe your build/work - something like Meson would be better - where you can describe on the one hand what a "program" model was as a kind of class or interface and on the other an implementation of the many nasty operating system specific details of how to build an item of that class or type.
Make has so many complex possible ways of operating (sometimes not all needed) that it can be hard to think about.
The things that Make can do end up slowing it down as a parser such that for large builds the time to parse the makefile becomes significant.
Make uses a dependency tree - when builds get large one starts to want an Inverted Dependency Tree. i.e. instead of working out what the aim of the build is and therefore what subcomponents need to be checked for changes we start with what changed and that gives us a list of actions that have to be taken. This sidesteps parsing of a huge makefile with a lot of build information in it that is mostly not relevant at all to the things that have changed. TUP is the first tool I know about that used this approach and having been burned hard by make and ninja when it comes to parsing huge makefiles (ninja is better but still slow) I think TUP's answer is the best https://gittup.org/tup/
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Content based change detection with Make
You might enjoy Tup[1] if you've not checked it out before.
[1]: https://gittup.org/tup/
pandoc
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Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.
I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.
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Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.
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LaTeX makes me so angry at word
Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?
For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.
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📓 Versionner et builder l'eBook de son Entretien Annuel d'Evaluation sur Git(Hub)
pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:
Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.
Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.
Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-pdfmake
[2] https://pandoc.org/
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.
[1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
[2]: https://pandoc.org/
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Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?
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Pandoc
I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.
[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061
- I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
- What Happened to Pandoc-Discuss?
What are some alternatives?
please - High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.
pandoc-highlighting-extensions - Extensions to Pandoc syntax highlighting
Taskfile - Repository for the Taskfile template.
obsidian-html - :file_cabinet: A simple tool to convert an Obsidian vault into a static directory of HTML files.
magma-nvim - Interact with Jupyter from NeoVim.
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
just - 🤖 Just a command runner
Obsidian-MD-To-PDF - A command line python script to convert Obsidian md files to a pdf
gnumake-windows - Instructions for building gnumake.exe as a native windows application
kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.
doit - task management & automation tool
wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine