Integrate with a command-building library

If I understood correctly, currently it is only possible to run raw shell commands, i.e. the user still has to make sure the correct flags are set and that the command takes into account the different platforms on which it can run. I'm in the process of creating a small library that tries to resolve this issue by creating a strongly typed interface to system commands as well as some polymorphic typeclasses to allow generating different commands on different systems based what the user wants.

Would this be of any interest to the developers of the Shake build tool? If the library matures, would it be of interest to mention it somewhere in the documentation? It's my first (public) Haskell library so if there's anything wrong with it or 'not done', please let me know.

By the way: many thanks for this piece of software, it really is awesome 👍

[ndmitchell]

Thanks for the compliment! Yes, sounds good to mention it as an alternative building to what's in Shake - which is effectively [String] with syntactic sugar only. I suspect it's also worth mentioning other alternatives, if people want them in this area (I know people talk about Turtle, but not sure if it's suitable for integration with Shake or not). My guess is probably a web page of libraries that work well with Shake, e.g. process running, and then link to it from cmd and similar?

@ndmitchell Sounds good to me! Turtle is also nice, it takes an entirely different approach than the one I do. Haven't tested it with Shake, though, but looking at the signatures of the functions it looks like it should be compatible, too.