Game

Game is a Make-like build tool using Go.

You describe build tasks in Go, and Game runs them.

Installation

go instal github.com/ridge/game@master

game binary will be installed to your $GOPATH/bin directory.

Discussion

Join the #game channel on gophers slack.

Documentation

Documentation website TBD, see this directory in meantime.

Why?

Mage has a great answer.

How is Game different from Mage?

Game is indeed a a fork of Mage.

Mage prides itself on having clean and readable build files. Game trades a bit of readability for features.

• New features of Game:

  • parameterized dependencies
  • top-level targets for variables implementing task.Runnable
  • task time tracing
  • per-task output capture (output from parallel tasks is not intermixed)
  • shorthand ctx.Dep instead of mg.CtxDeps(ctx, ...)
  • Functions, variables and methods named All are defaults. E.g. a method declaration func (Hey) All(ctx task.Context) {} produces a task named hey, not hey:all.

• Game drops several features of Mage:

  • GOPATH environment support
  • Shorthand tasks definition without Context parameter

License

Game is licensed under terms of Apache 2.0 license.