Some questions on FAKE

[Anton Tayanovskyy]

Hi everyone,

I just tried out FAKE yesterday. Overall I have a good impression -
programming in F# is way better than MSBuild (obviously), and various
helpers in FakeLib help not reinvent the wheel in the build scripting.
Keep up the good work!

I have a few beginner questions:

1. Is there any mechanism for checking if a build step can be
bypassed? AFAIK this logic, tied to files, was the biggest deal in
*nix make.

2. Are there helpers for generating fsproj files? Or perhaps compiling
F# projects directly (calling Fsc)? This might be a time saver for
some of my uses.

3. In the Java world there is a build manager called Maven, and it has
an attractive feature called archetypes:
http://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/ - in two
words, this is akin to solution templates that you can create in
VisualStudio. It allows quickly starting new projects based on a
pattern, and easily publishing new project patterns. What is a good
way to go about this in the F# world? I tried making VisualStudio
templates and while they work OK for single project templates, they
are a bit of a pain to manage, and I have to forfeit a lot of control
(cannot script it in F#, for example).


Thanks,

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Kind Regards,
Anton Tayanovskyy

WebSharper™ - type-safe JavaScript in F#
http://intellifactory.com

[Steffen Forkmann]

Hi,

1. Is there any mechanism for checking if a build step can be bypassed? AFAIK this logic, tied to files, was the biggest deal in *nix make.

If you want to check if a file has changed or so then No.

2. Are there helpers for generating fsproj files? Or perhaps compiling F# projects directly (calling Fsc)? This might be a time saver for some of my uses.

No. Not yet.

3. In the Java world there is a build manager called Maven, and it has an attractive feature called archetypes:

I don't know about such a feature.

Sorry.

Cheers,
Steffen

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[Yawar Amin]

Hello,

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:29:38 PM UTC-5, forki23 wrote:

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2. Are there helpers for generating fsproj files? Or perhaps compiling F# projects directly (calling Fsc)? This might be a time saver for some of my uses.
        No. Not yet.

I know I'm late to the party but in case someone looks here: I've managed to create a rough wrapper around the `fsc` executable in the form of a couple of functions. The Gist is at: https://gist.github.com/yawaramin/67a2a60e20ab83431844#file-fake-fsc-fs

If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to explain.

Regards,

Yawar