just/notes
2016-10-30 13:14:39 -07:00

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todo
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before release
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- where can users get help?
- irc, email, github, mailing list
- rewrite grammar.txt
- start with an example justfile
- then installation instructions
- then a long guide
- make it clear it's beta, mention that, as a command runner
there is probably a higher than normal chance of disaster
- change name back to 'just', suggest j as alias
- change description to "a polyglot command runner"?
- update readme
- document all code, including private stuff
(can this be enforced with a lint?)
#![deny(missing_docs)]
- note that shell is invoked with -cu, explain -c and -u
- document all features with example justfiles
(also make them runnable as tests, maybe, at least parse them)
. update tarball dep
. check version string
. clean
. update logs (repetitive git flow)
- full documentation
. man page
. record sessions and replay them to output docs
. talk about why the syntax is so unforgiving
easier to accept a program that you once rejected than to
no longer accept a program or change its meaning
. habit of using clever commands and writing little scripts
. debugging with --debug or --evaluate
. `` strips a single newline
. very low friction to write a script (no new file, chmod, add to rcs)
. make list of contributors, include travis
. alias .j='just --justfile ~/.justfile --working-directory ~'
. lay out the structure of the code, mention tests, give tips
for contributing
- vim and emacs syntax hilighting (use makefile syntax hilighting for now)
- make sure there isn't any unused code
- ask users to contribute their justfiles as tests
- try to get some users
. facebook friends
. irc
. r/rust
enhancements
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- lazy assignment: don't evaluate unused assignments
- use cow strings where we currently use String
- colored error messages
- multi line strings (maybe not in recipe interpolations)
- raw strings with ''
- iteration: {{x for x in y}}
- allow calling recipes in a justfile in a different directory:
. just ../foo # ../justfile:foo
. just xyz/foo # xyz/justfile:foo
. just xyz/ # xyz/justfile:DEFAULT
. path prefix is starting dir, so just ../foo can run ../../justfile:foo
- allow setting and exporting environment variables
. export a as "HELLO_BAR"
. export a
. export HELLO_BAR = a
. export CC_FLAGS = "-g"
. will have to support crazy names
- indentation or slash for line continuation in plain recipes