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When you say, "there is no standard way to list out the available commands", do you mean like a `make help`? https://gist.github.com/prwhite/8168133#gistcommen
by oso2k 6y ago
When you say, "there is no standard way to list out the available commands", do you mean like a `make help`?
https://gist.github.com/prwhite/8168133#gistcomment-3114855 https://gist.github.com/prwhite/8168133#gistcomment-3114855
- lytedev 6y agoWhile you you could argue that this is a convention -- I'd say this isn't even a common one -- it's still a long way from being "standard".
- jackewiehose 6y ago"make help" is definitely not a standard. For all I know "make help" builds help.exe. But there is a standard way to get available commands: Just look at the README or open the Makefile with a text-editor! The lack of a standard argument for getting help doesn't make it problematic for use as a command runner. You can't get atomatically all available commands from a Makefile just like you can't get all command-line flags from an executable. The program/Makefile has to provide it by itself.