fakeshake / fake.shake

Fake.Shake

Build what you need, when you need it.

Based on the Shake paper, Fake.Shake stores a cache of previous builds and only rebuilds what you need when you run it.

Differences from the paper/Haskell Shake, or implementation details:

• Assumes you'll be using Fake helpers, will integrate with them as we go along
• Rules are defined a little differently, see Fake.Shake.DefaultRules.fsx
• Currently using SHA1 of content of files rather than last modified time - will revisit if it causes performance issues
• Using FsPickler to store cache results

Fake.Shake builds itself; to make the bootstrapping it #loads the Fake.Shake source files rather then referencing the compiled binary. There shouldn't be any need to do this in any other situation.

The current build contains the packaging and testing rules; changes to files that are depended on by one should not require a rebuild of the other, but changing anything both steps depend or in the core assembly will trigger partial rebuilds as required.

Have fun, send pull requests!

fake.shake's Issues

Create package build step

It should depend on the main library but not the tests.

Make builds concurrent

Which will require changes to the Results property of the build state. Or an actor type pattern. Or some other solution.

Create an projFile default rule

If it's possible! This should know how to determine all the files a proj file depends on (within reason!), require any project references and then finally call Fake's MsBuild helper on the project.

Require should check for recursive dependencies

Because that would be bad

Osx build hangs

I've got to the point where I can run build.fsx on Osx (I had to add some #I include paths - I'll get a PR together when I get this sorted as I also added #I parsing into the build rules.).

When I run it hangs, with no activity, I guess its waiting on a channel or something in Hopac. I'm sprinkling tracefn calls around to see if I can track where...

Better error handling

Rather than just hanging forever.

See Hopac/Hopac#73

Use file globbing rather than RegEx where relevant

Once fsprojects/FAKE#860 is closed.