shake for wrapping remote buildsystem client?

[Jens Petersen]

Hi,

I am still new to Shake but just wondered if it would make any sense to try to use it for controlling builds of dependencies in a remote buildsystem via a command-line client?

Has anyone done anything like that with Shake?
Do targets have to be local files? (I could probably workaround that with some local dummy files)

Thanks for Shake and any insight on this,

Jens

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Jens,

I think it's been done before - see the discussions in
https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake/issues/26 - but I don't really
know the details. Those discussions lead to the API's newThrottle and
unsafeExtraThread, which may be useful to you.

You can define your own Rule class and avoid having local files, but
I'd probably use dummy local files to start with, get it working that
way, then define your own rules later.

Thanks, Neil