[ENH] New Task Type: Task Proxy/Generator

[nickgarber]

Hiya 👋

A task proxy/generator would provide a listing (in some consumable format), of task data, such that:

• a task generator that includes something like make list, would cause the listing of targets to also be usable from project-tasks.

I don't have any particular constraints around how this is implemented, and may be interested in helping to add it based on your interest/feedback.

Perhaps this is already possible by having project-tasks execute and pass control to an interactive task that provides some sort of secondary interactive control.

For reference I use https://pydoit.org/, and GNU Make, and am becoming more curious in https://just.systems/ . So those are the downstream systems I have in mind when I'm describing this.

Thanks!

PS

• Please don't feel any undo rush to add this. I'm just excited to see this project, and wanted to start a discussion on these ideas.
• I've been slowly iterating on a personal (not-yet-published) project focused on using Org-Mode as a portable runtime that may have synergy with this.

[TxGVNN]

Thank you for second suggestion.

It looks some features in the future, but I'm not sure if any packages on MELPA are several that are similar in purpose.
I really don't want to repeat features if we actually have it in the community.

So I think you and me can look around MELPA packages to make sure we don't repeat exist things before we continue to discuss on the detail.

[nickgarber]

Sure thing - I took a look about ...

• searching MELPA for 'task'
  • task-runner supports multiple task runners but is abandoned
• searching MELPA for 'runner'
  • emacs-bpr does look quite cool, but doesn't provide any form of task discovery or selection.
  • imake provides a navigable list of actions by parsing aMakefile for targets to run. The project seems healthy and active though my attempt to use it was unsuccessful. It's make-specific but perhaps it could provide inspiration be adapted here, (or for me to create an analogous package for initiating doit targets).

I can't claim that this scan is perfectly comprehensive, Emacs is a strange place.