In general, my happy place is a Makefile anyway. `make` ought to do what I would want this for and is more flexible. t: am curmudgeon
On July 14, 2023 9:26:29 AM CDT, Jim Freeze <jimfre...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:17 AM Christopher Keele <christheke...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> I think a standard `mix build` interface would be most useful for: >> >> - People new to Elixir just checking out a project from source and trying >> to see if it compiles, using familiar semantics from other langs >> - People checking out a project from source with compilable deliverables, >> like a CLI executable, which is beyond the purview of most Phoenix >> applications >> > >Hi, Chris. > >I'll give a counter opinion on `mix build`. I find it confusing because I >don't know what it does. >I used zig for a while and the most confusing thing about their environment >was the build command. > >If `mix build` was added today, I would end up having to read mix.exs every >time to remember what it did. > > I'm not sure a standard alias will be helpful if everyone ends up having >to customize it anyway and then there is no shared understanding of what >`mix build` means. > >Jim > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"elixir-lang-core" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAP1mN_x%3DQCjMJDg2Atc%3DN1vV-fv30eU_phpTsrZD37yPf5S6hQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/F0CFAB11-5158-460E-9751-FCE40F4B2D75%40gmail.com.
