Hello, A big thank you to everybody who contributed to this thread! I guess it will take some time to process the things learned from this discussion.
BR, Roland Am Mi., 25. Aug. 2021 um 12:28 Uhr schrieb Stephen Illingworth < stephen.illingwo...@gmail.com>: > I use Makefiles with Go projects. For many of the reasons already given > but it's especially useful for me for cross compilation to the target > platforms at release time. So, when running "make release" I have "test" > and "generate" targets as dependencies to make sure I've not missed > anything. > > I don't need a build system to do that but it's good to have a script for > that kind of thing, IMO. > > I also use it in the git pre-commit hook. For example, I have "make lint" > in that script which runs whatever linter I'm using at the moment and I can > be assured that it's the same linter I'm using at the command line. > > As for why not another build system, for the same reason as other > respondents have said. Make has been around forever and I don't need > anything more sophisticated. > > > Make does not come alone for end-users. Usually it comes bundled with > several hundreds of megabytes of > the devel packages user gets after > issuing eg. `sudo apt-get install build-essential`. > > Surely, you would just do: `sudo apt-get install make` > > > On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 at 12:14:50 UTC+1 ohir wrote: > >> Dnia 2021-08-24, o godz. 07:54:35 >> Reto <re...@labrat.space> napisał(a): >> >> > It may be nicer, however the beauty of make is that it is ubiquitous, >> > everybody already has it. >> >> No, not everybody has it. Esp. on Windows host. >> >> > With mage, your installation instructions now need to contain how / >> > where to get mage in the first place, leaving the user with a random >> > binary somewhere which they probably never ever need nor update again. >> >> Nope. If user is going to compile from sources she also needs to install >> Go compiler and tools. Once she has it the mage is a `go install` command >> away. Shorter than typical line of "prerequisites" needed by non-developer >> user on most of linux distros. (If she is about to install binary she does >> not need mage at all - 99% deployments of Go based apps are just the single >> executable.) >> >> > leaving the user with ... they probably never ever need nor update >> again. >> >> Make does not come alone for end-users. Usually it comes bundled with >> several hundreds of megabytes of the devel packages >> user gets after issuing eg. `sudo apt-get install build-essential`. Then >> she's left with a bit more more unused stuff than a single >> mage binary. >> >> TC, >> >> -- >> Wojciech S. Czarnecki >> << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/039b0cac-a81c-40ae-bb46-f12d11261707n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/039b0cac-a81c-40ae-bb46-f12d11261707n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CA%2B8p0G0vb6RbwP4cQ3yNHk%3DGY%2BFW9Frx3e-M24vifW8QPsOn9g%40mail.gmail.com.
