Provide support for modules that change Gulp's API about gulp-require-tasks

[slavafomin]

Hello @digitaldonkey! Thank you for your interest in this module!

I'm sorry for a late reply, we have very limited resources right now.

My generic idea is that it's not a good thing to change the interface of the third-party module, like gulp-help does with gulp. I think gulp-help should provide some other non-obtrusive means to define help messages for tasks.

Hey, @chmontgomery what do you think about this?

Right now, I have no good ideas of how we can make it to work without creating a complex mess of Gulp's API. Of course I can extract Gulp's task definition into a separate function, that you will be able to re-define in your project's code, but I'm not sure if this complexity is worth it.

[chmontgomery]

it's true, gulp-help is purposefully obtrusive, changing gulp's underlying API. If it were me, I wouldn't write any crazy code in gulp-require-tasks just to support it.

That said, gulp-help v4.0 (which was re-written for gulp v4) does not change the underlying API. So going forward, gulp-require-tasks should work without problems (assuming it also supports gulp v4)

[slavafomin]

Thank you @chmontgomery, that makes sense. Let's then wait for Gulp 4 release and see what we can do about this.

For now, I'm not planning to implement any workarounds, considering the complexity of the integration.

@digitaldonkey if you have any good thoughts about it, or some alternatives, please let me know. I'm not closing this for now.

[digitaldonkey]

I just forked and hacked in order to get my project running. I think it's kind of required for certain types of modules to hook into the process before gulp (like this module). And I wouldn't recommend to fix for gulp-help only, but try to find a general way on how the params can be transformed in order to have a general approach.
I will watch this issue and may be able to help testing if you decide to implement.

[slavafomin]

Okay then, if this issue will get enough attention, we will look into it. For now, I will have to preserve our resources.

Cheers!