I’m playing around with DrWatson to organize research workflows. It feels like it would be nice to also have a Makefile in a project repository that defines which scripts produce which output file. The idea would be to simply be able to run make in the project root and that would run all my julia sc…

Associated issue: https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/DrWatson.jl/issues/315

[image] [ANN] Makeitso.jl: Make-like behaviour for Julia scripts Package Announcements Makeitso.jl Make-like behavior to facilitate writing long-running scripts. The idea is that the user supplies the dependencies between targets and recipes for how to make a t…

Hmm… Makeitso.jl looks like an interesting project in terms of tracking a full dependency graph, but it seems pretty far removed from anything file-based like make. In the meantime, “quick and dirty” would look something like this src/makerules.jl file , which is then included in a make.jl file in t…

Makeitso is very much file based in that every target is cached on disk. What you probably mean is the ability to produce source and object files as part of a compilation process as in make. I guess this can be easily achieved in Makeitso.jl by creating those output files as a side effect of the rec…

[image] krcools: Makeitso is very much file based in that every target is cached on disk. What you probably mean is the ability to produce source and object files as part of a compilation process as in make. Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Sorry I wasn’t clear. I guess this can be easily a…

[image] goerz: That actually seems less than ideal, in this context. I don’t know if there would be a way to tweak Makeitso.jl to use the mtime of the “payload file” for the time stamp I think there are two reasons not to get rid of the pilot files. (i) If produced variables are still in memo…

Hello all, have you found a solution? I am about to start using ShowYourWork for the research pipeline (and paper writing) but wanted to know if there is any solution in Julia.

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