connorbach / makectl

WIP - Generate and Manage targets in your makefiles.

makectl

Generate and Manage targets in your makefiles.

Makectl is a command line tool to generate and manage general use targets in your makefiles.

Features

• Generates Makefiles and manages existing ones
• Provides a repository with templates for general use targets
• Does not break your custom targets

Example

In a folder, lets say you have a Makefile

.PHONY run

run:
    my_awesome_script --options

...

Now you may want to add some general use targets to reuse in your project, for example, everyone needs a target to clean up .pyc files in a Python project.

$ makectl add --template=python-clean
... Reading templates database from github.io/makectl...
... Building templates 
... Aplying new target `clean-pyc` to `./Makefile` 

The end result will be:

.PHONY run clean-pyc

run:
    my_awesome_script --options

# MAKECTL MANAGED BLOCK INIT

clean-pyc:
	@find ./ -name '*.pyc' -exec rm -f {} \;
	@find ./ -name 'Thumbs.db' -exec rm -f {} \;
	@find ./ -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;
	rm -rf .cache
	rm -rf build
	rm -rf dist
	rm -rf *.egg-info
	rm -rf htmlcov
	rm -rf .tox/
	rm -rf docs/_build

# MAKECTL MANAGED BLOCK END

The templates database is a folder under this repo with .template files in it.