RORossBencina·Oct 2, 2016
Not sure whether it has a FUSE dependency any more.[0] Code says:
TUP_MONITOR = inotify
[0] https://github.com/gittup/tup/blob/master/linux.tup
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Tup is a file-based build system.
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What it is
Tup is a file-based build system.
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I love Tup, it basically replaced Make for me. It tracks dependencies and files, automatically cleaning and updating everything even more precisely than Make, making it a lot…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI'd not heard of tup, thought I'd try it out on Windows. Unfortunately I hit a bug straight away: Tup is not directly compatible with MSVC 2015 (without disabling VCToolsTelemetry.dat generation in the registry) [0].
I don't fancy adopting a tool that forces me to opt-out of being able to send compiler debug telemetry to Microsoft the next time I hit a compiler bug.
There is a nice (but a bit dated, 2010) review here [1] which discusses some other features and shortcomings.
[0] https://github.com/gittup/tup/issues/182
[1] 2010: https://chadaustin.me/2010/06/scalable-build-systems-an-anal...
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