Woul > On 20 Oct 2015, at 18:03, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > I'm presently migrating our one Makefile left in couchdb to a Windows > NMakefile, which uses a different syntax. > > git shell works but has enough problems that I don't want to rely on > it. Sometimes it's almost as much work to debug a GNU Makefile running > under cygwin as it is to rewrite the entire Makefile as an NMakefile. > > It'd be super swell if you could avoid a GNU Makefile. > > -Joan > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert Kowalski" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 10:12:17 AM >> Subject: Fauxton Windows developer question >> >> Hey there, >> >> I am currently working with our old & grown Gruntfile.js [1] together >> with >> the files in tasks/ >> >> The gruntfile has grown over the years and it got really hard to make >> changes to our buildsystem. >> >> It also has some weird edge cases, as a release is made from the >> dist/debug >> folder, but the debug folder and it's contents is created from the >> task >> that spins up the devserver. >> >> Anyway... right now I am trying to integrate Babel as react-tools are >> deprecated. After the update I want to update to React 14 (that's >> where my >> current journey began). >> >> There are some tasks that would perfectly fit into a Makefile because >> they >> don't fit in a one liner as `npm run <task>` [2] (e.g. finding all >> .less >> files and feed them into the less compiler). I know that some people >> are >> using Windows and I am a super Windows noob. >> >> Windows Fauxton developers: >> >> Do Makefiles run in your Windows dev environment (e.g. via git shell >> et. >> al.) or would a make based build for Fauxton exclude you? >> >> If it would exclude you, do you have a suggestion what to use? >> >> Best, >> Robert :) >> >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/blob/master/Gruntfile.js >> [2] >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/blob/master/package.json#L50 >>
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