Module improvement tracking issue about just

[vasdee]

I am definitely interested in seeing modules fleshed out a bit more. I'm coming from being a fairly heavy make user where our team could organize make 'stubs' and include them on a per-repo basis.

Something like this was nice and handy in Make-land, and is definitely nearly there with Just

Makefile

-include .env
-include make.d/*.make

make.d/docker.make

docker/build:
   docker build ...

docker/login:
   docker login ....

The recipe naming with the / gave us faux-namespacing, which worked fairly well, but is arguably better implemented with Just modules. The one thing that keeps me from using them in this Make style way, is that variables from main/root Justfile don't cascade into the sub-modules

This has made it difficult to fully embrace modules, so we resort to using imports in Just and doing a more 'restrictive' faux-namespacing in the recipe names.

I would therefore +1 all the following, as I think they all contribute

• Recipes defined in one module can be depended on from another
• Variables defined in one module can be referenced from another
• Allow creating inline modules that are declared and defined in a single module
• Add a setting which allows a parent module to propagate settings to submodules
• Consider adding a reverse setting, which allows a child module to inherit settings from its parent

As an aside, I think I'd be perfect happy as well if recipe names could include some special characters that allow the 'faux' namespacing I mention, / is ideal ( or even \, but even a . would suffice. Then I could just use imports

[prasannavl]

Adding this one to the list: #2271