[LeonB]

It’s an omission and serious bug for this thread to not already contain the following comments:

“Why would I consider this, given that make is perfect”

And

“Doesn’t eMacs org mode already do this?”

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Seriously, looks nice.

I’m a big fan of Jeeves and Wooster novels and I am a little concerned that Reginald Jeeves would not like to be portrayed as a kind of murderous robot. He’s far too civil to execute people (though he did use a kosh to knock out a police officer on at least one occasion).

[haolez]

I wouldn't say make is perfect, but it's different from this kind of tool. Make is more geared towards file creation that depends on complex pipelines. It's not a task runner. In fact, you have to force it to be a task runner with .PHONY if you really need it to.

[yeti-sh]

With interpretable languages, this feature of Make is IMHO rarely called for. Task running is; Makefile still is a standard way to do project maintenance, both locally and CI. jeeves is an attempt to extract that feature of Make, and provide it in a more accessible way.

By making .PHONY and .ONESHELL labels history, as a particular example.

[kelnos]

> “Why would I consider this, given that make is perfect”

Not even that; this doesn't seem to implement any of make's core features, so it's not actually a replacement for make. It's a replacement for shell scripts.

(And no, I don't buy that the comparison is apt because some people use make as a command runner. Sure, they do, sometimes, but that doesn't mean jeeves is a make replacement. It's not.)

[yeti-sh]

Thanks!

Perhaps this particular robot is running a much more civilized version of Skynet/Cyberdyne firmware.

And is sure to be speaking impeccable English.