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• just

  75 14,609 7.5 Rust

  🤖 Just a command runner

  I end up using Makefiles for many projects that have stages in their execution (e.g. manual or one-off ETL pipelines). It is nice to use as a reference, but I do feel like it's a bastardization at times.

  The Just command runner [1] is very good, but is not as ubiquitous.

  [1]: https://github.com/casey/just

• Task

  49 8,999 0.0 Go

  A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

  

  go-task is a very good task runner. Better than “just" IMO. I am now using go-task with every project. Right after creating the gitignore, I create the Taskfile.

  https://github.com/go-task/task

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• Starbound-Mod

  1 1 10.0 Makefile

  Template for a self-contained Starbound mod, including a Makefile for PAK building and Workshop uploading

  I resisted learning Make because of the clunkiness around it (Tab-indentation? C-specific features? Gross!), but after using it a few times now I've come to appreciate it.

  Most recent case was for Starbound mods. The macOS and Linux versions of Starbound don't ship with any built-in tools for uploading mods to the Steam Workshop (unlike Windows, which apparently has a dedicated GUI for it), and I didn't want to have to manually go through a bunch of SteamCMD steps every time I wanted to publish an update, so for my first real mod I put together a Makefile to automatically pack all the files together (using Starbound's included asset_packer CLI tool), populate a metadata.vdf for the Steam Workshop, and run the right steamcmd incantations to get everything up. Once that was reliably working, I condensed everything into a GitHub template repo (https://github.com/YellowApple/Starbound-Mod) and ended up with a pretty straightforward (albeit a bit clunky in spots) universal Makefile:

      MODNAME  = StarboundMod

• grml

  1 14 0.0 Go

  A simple build automation tool written in Go

  

  I agree. That's why we use the small grml tool as task/command runner in all our projects.

  https://github.com/desertbit/grml

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