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I use mk for all my personal projects. It is such a useful place to store maintenance operations on files exactly where they are needed. Not just build-type ope
by black_knight 4y ago
I use mk for all my personal projects. It is such a useful place to store maintenance operations on files exactly where they are needed. Not just build-type operations, but also syncing with remote stuff and other maintenance things.
My webside is managed by a big mkfile which builds html from markdown using pandoc and deploys over ssh. There is even a target in there for checking for dead links using curl.
I just counted: 778 mkfiles in my personal files.
- bkq 4y agoThat sounds really interesting, any chance you could post the mkfile you use for that?
- black_knight 4y agoSure, I will post it once I get home. There is no hocus pocus in it, but I has been working for me without issue for close to a decade already.
- nmz 4y agoDid you ever get home?
- black_knight 4y agoI did in fact finally reach my home after long wanderings: https://okturing.com/src/14174/body https://okturing.com/src/14174/body
- black_knight 4y agoHere it is: https://okturing.com/src/14174/body https://okturing.com/src/14174/body Just say if something needs explaining. There are some references to other fines in there, like the deployment index (its just list of files to deploy) and the comment blob (it is just a notice that people can comment by e-mail.
- daptaq 4y agoAny reason you chose to use mk over (GNU) Make?
- black_knight 4y agoMostly just the simpler syntax. I always found makefiles a bit off-putting. On the other hand, the syntax for mkfiles, especially with rc as the mk shell, feels slick and homely.
- bch 4y ago> feels slick and homely. I presume “homely” is this context means UK “familiar and pleasant, as in a home”, and not US “not attractive or good-looking”.
- black_knight 4y agoHah, I forget the American meaning of that word. Indeed “homely” as in “the last homely house east of the sea”.