History§

This document lists major releases and changes for the Makex project.

Versions are identified by the pattern YYYYMMSS (A date with sequence number; year (YYYY), month (MM), sequence (SS)).

20250502§

  • Resolve a critical issue preventing stoppage on error.

  • Add alias for tasks list command (list).

20250501§

  • Allow joined strings in output file paths.

  • Allow joining paths with joined strings.

  • Improve task requirements error reporting.

  • Handle slices in self references (e.g. self.outputs["example"] and self.inputs["example"]). This syntax is NOT preferred.

  • Allow joined strings in executable names.

20250301§

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Task Locator pattern reversal!

    • For example, //path:task_name it is now task_name://path, or :task_name is now task_name.

    • See the documentation about this breaking change and tools to automatically fix.

    • Old Makex files MUST be fixed ASAP.

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Path/Files in the task requirements are not allowed!

    • Files/paths must be specified in the task.inputs list or mapping.

    • See the documentation about this breaking change and tools to automatically fix.

    • Old Makex files MUST be fixed ASAP.

  • The copy function now overwrites files and folders.

  • Fix an issue with copy on write not being detected.

  • Improve recursive folder copying performance significantly.

  • Improve parsing speed significantly.

  • Improve path resolution.

  • Improve documentation.

  • Add experimental task_outputs(name, path=None).output_name function/expression.

  • Add makex fix command.

20250101§

  • Add experimental support for Task self references. See the documentation/proposal.

  • Add experimental support for named inputs/outputs. See the documentation/proposal.

  • Add experimental support for optional requirements. See the documentation/proposal.

  • Add experimental support for using Paths in Globs as a pattern.

  • Enable temporary argument to control maximum CPUs used by makex (--cpus).

  • Remove Environment variables support and documentation for upcoming improvements to variables.

  • Add a new way to set environment variables for a task: the environment argument.

  • Deprecate the Path() constructor, replacing with path().

20241201§

  • Allow executing the outputs of another task.

  • Add support for running makex run :task anywhere within a descendant directory.

  • Add erase() action to erase files from task outputs.

  • Allow using globs and expressions for the copy action.

  • Allow using the copy action to copy the outputs of one task to the outputs of another using simple task locators.

20240701§

  • Improve copy() with glob() and find() functions.

  • Fix makex return/exit code on error.

  • Fix error handling of include(required=False).

20240602§

  • Add support for building makex with pyoxidizer (makex run :pyoxidizer).

20240601§

  • Fix/improve copy() action.

  • Improve source() function. Accept Path objects in arguments.

  • Add Path.with_suffix() function.

  • Make assorted minor improvements.

  • Fix path command output.

  • Remove dependency on progressbar.

  • Fix environment variable getter.

  • Add experimental archive() action.

20240401§

  • Sorry for the renames. Naming things is hard.

  • Rename all Target to Task.

    • Task is clearer for users not coming from a make background.

  • Deprecate target() function name. Now named task(steps=[]) or Task(steps=[]).

  • Deprecate path() function name. Now named task_path().

  • Add actions= argument to target(), replacing runs=.

  • Add experimental support for macros (@macro decorator).

  • Add experimental support for including files (include() function).

  • Add initial support for named outputs.

20240204§

  • Improve copy arguments. See copy() function documentation.

  • Disable import statement.

  • Make file marker optional.

  • Detect/warn/error on assignment of variables to common functions/keywords(target(), path(), etc).

    • e.g. target=True should not be possible.

  • Unify the exception hierarchy.

  • Rename Runnable to Action.

  • Skip None values in path and argument lists.

  • Add flag to enable Target.path argument.

20240103§

  • Initial public release.

… (2024-01-12)§

  • Project conceived.