-B, --always-make gone?

[Andreas Reuleaux]

Sorry if thas has been discussed maybe, but I cannot see anything
mentioned in the changelog

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shake-0.16.4/changelog

My old shake 0.15.11 allowed a command line option

-B, --always-make Unconditionally make all targets.

that was very useful at times, but seems to have gone in shake 0.16.4.

Any suggestions how to get the old -B behaviour ?

Thanks,
Andreas

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Andreas,

This part of the Shake was rewritten quite extensively in the 0.16
release, sorry I didn't call out what flags were disappearing (an
oversight).

You can get the same effect with `--rebuild`, which also lets you take
arguments saying what to rebuild, if that's interesting to you - a
simple --rebuild should match the old always-make.

The reason for redoing these flags was the old Make flags (which is
what Shake was modelled on) turned out to be specified in very
make-like terms, so were hard to find a good Shake semantics for. The
new rebuild/no-rebuild flags should hopefully cause less confusion and
work more reliably.

Thanks, Neil

[Andreas Reuleaux]

Hi Neil,

OK, I see, thanks a lot.

-Andreas