I personally like the idea of a mix build alias defined by mix new. The reason is that, while mix build is usually different for different projects, I like the idea of standardizing on the terminology "build".
> On 13 Jul 2023, at 21:21, Jonathan Arnett <jonarnet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm definitely open to generating a default alias. > > On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 3:17:14 PM UTC-4 christ...@gmail.com > <http://gmail.com/> wrote: >> I'd make the counter-argument: mix is a build tool, but not your build; >> that's something you should define for your project. >> >> In pretty much all of my projects, I find myself writing a `mix build` >> alias, as a high-level one-stop-shop command, but it looks very different >> for each project—my Bakeware CLI application builds look very different from >> my phoenix umbrella web application build with a custom auto-asset-vendoring >> pipeline. >> >> Perhaps simply having `mix new` create a default alias for `mix build` would >> work here? I'm very against prescribing what it means to build a project, >> but this approach would encourage a common idiom across mix projects as well >> as giving developers a jumping-off-point for when their build's complexity >> grows. >> >> On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 9:08:55 AM UTC-5 Jonathan Arnett wrote: >>> When I first clone an Elixir repository, usually the first thing I do is >>> run `mix do deps.get, compile`. It gets the job done, but it's a bit >>> verbose. Build tools in other languages (e.g. Rust's cargo, Haskell's >>> stack, Gleam's gleam) have a "build" command that both pulls dependencies >>> and compiles the app. The proposed "build" command for mix would >>> functionally be the same running `mix do deps.get, compile`, just in a >>> smaller package. >>> >>> I realize that I can make such an alias in my own projects, and I have, but >>> I wonder if this would be useful for the larger Elixir community. > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/7da02486-b925-42b6-90e7-4f06c667417fn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/7da02486-b925-42b6-90e7-4f06c667417fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/EACFBB2D-51DF-4698-BD79-079DC29E776C%40gmail.com.
