Makefile Enhancement Proposal

[wilmoore]

Proposing the following:

COMPONENT ?= $(firstword $(shell which $(CURDIR)/node_modules/.bin/component) $(shell which component))

build: components index.js
    @$(COMPONENT) build --dev

components: component.json
    @$(COMPONENT) install --dev

clean:
    $(RM) -fr build components template.js

Rationale

• The $(COMPONENT) variable allows allows automatic use of either local component (if it exists) or the globally installed component.
• The ?= allows you to pass in some other path to component (not sure there is a use-case for that, but why not -- it's free with GNU Make)
• The $(RM) variable is just a little more portable this way (this is pretty pendantic, but I can't see any downside) - The only way this is bad is if someone uses turns on -R or --no-builtin-variables; though, anyone doing that knows what they are doing and know how to correct the issue.

Let me know...if this looks good, I'll issue a PR.

[wilmoore]

The original for context:

build: components index.js
    @component build --dev

components: component.json
    @component install --dev

clean:
    rm -fr build components template.js

.PHONY: clean

[timoxley]

Why not just issue a PR?

[wilmoore]

@timoxley easier to bat the mockup around in an issue in case it isn't desirable as-is :)

[wilmoore]

That being said, #214 has been created.

[wilmoore]

We should close this also :)