[mike_hearn]

I feel I must be missing something here, but ...

The inability to specify config asynchronously turned into a disaster. Our primary need for async config was specifying temp directories for tasks to operate in. We used tmp, which does not have a synchronous api ...... I would like the task system to provide an abstraction for pipelining tasks

Is this abstraction not normally just called a program? Where you can do something like:

val tmp = makeTempDir()

generateFoo(outputDir = tmp)

generateBar(inputDir = tmp)

etc?

How much of this complexity is fundamental and how much is people attempting to work around Node's inherent limitations and fully asynchronous APIs? Perhaps the author should check out something like Gradle instead?

[woah]

Gulp has no temporary directories.