Build Systems à la Carte.

A library for experimenting with build systems and incremental computation frameworks, based on the ideas presented in the ICFP 2018 paper "Build Systems à la Carte".

Build Systems à la Carte

This project provides an executable framework for developing and comparing build systems, viewing them as related points in landscape rather than as isolated phenomena. The code derives from the ICFP 2018 paper "Build Systems à la Carte" (PDF).

Getting Started

You may be interested to:

• Run stack test to execute all the provided build systems on a very simple example.
• Look at the HTML documentation of all modules for the last release, or generate it yourself using stack haddock.
• Read the code, particularly Build.System, which is the concrete implementation of all build systems.

Related Material

• Blog post on the motivation behind the project.
• Blog post on the task abstraction.
• Blog post reviewing how the paper was written.
• Talk by Neil on this paper and Shake.
• A talk on build systems by Andrey.