Hi,
if it was me, I'd avoid plain makefiles, too. At least for fauxton. What
about sticking with Grunt? We could still do some work to brush up the
Gruntfile. And with a few tweaks, it's portable, even on Win (in fact: I
found another one this WE).
Best
Sebastian
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> 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" <r...@kowalski.gd>
> > To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
> > 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
> >
>
