Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by gonvaled on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:00PM
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Please write a makefile that uses an environment variable as a mysql password to connect to a mysql server and perform an arbitrary administrative task.
Now do the same, assuming that the password can have a dollar in it.
You can do it. It is not as easy, readable or maintanable. Avoid it if you can.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by flukus on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:04PM
(#16489584)
Why do it from a makefile instead of a script called by the makefile? This plays well to the strengths of both.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by gonvaled on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:04AM
(#16490020)
Just because of the dollar? Exactly my point.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by flukus on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:37AM
(#16490120)
No, not just because of the dollar. Because it's easier to test in isolation and allows you to use things like here docs which are useful for dealing with sql.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by gonvaled on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:06AM
(#16491594)
?
Somehow we started with a single dollar in a string, and now I am dealing with sql, here docs, and TDD?
There is a place for everything in life: for small helper makefiles, which I write simply to support me in my workflow and even to remember some interesting commands that I need to run for a certain project, I can assure you that making some simple assumptions helps me staying halfway sane.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by rcxdude on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:24AM
(#16492198)
This represents a problem with make, not any other part of the system.
But I'm going to go back to my original point. What I do have an opinion about is how reasonable it is for tools not to support a character that is valid in file names, when that character is straightforward to support with everyday, well known syntax.
And when that character is ' ', the standard English word separator, as straightforwardly supported by approximately ever kind of quoting or escaping syntax ever, my opinion about a lack of support is: it's crap.