Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by makmanalp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:55PM
(#16485630)
What about, for example, a source file that needs to be downloaded and diffed from the web? What about when you need to pull stuff from a database? You can hack your way around but it's not the most fun.
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by falcolas on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:04PM
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WRT the web file, curl can be run and only download a file if the file has been modified after the file on disk.
DB are harder (yet possible) but not a common request that I’ve seen.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by makmanalp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:15PM
(#16487629)
curl -z only works if the server has the proper headers set - good luck with that. The point is, it's great to be able to have custom conditions for determining "needs to be updated", for example.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by ycombobreaker on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:28AM
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You can always download to a temporary location and only copy to the destination file if there is a difference. You don't need direct support from curl or whatever other tool generates the data.