Task runner vs scripts

[bryantbiggs]

Theres various scripts and a little bit of duplication between CI and scripts. I'm happy to take on making this a bit better - something that can be used both locally by developers as well as by the CI checks (so they both are doing the same checks the same way). Before I started though, I wanted to see if there was any preference on tooling or approach. A couple options, please suggest others:

• Standard Makefile (GNUMakefile)
• cargo-make
• justfile

[bryantbiggs]

We could also look at the release process in a 2nd step as well - see if there is something that can be done to simplify the code generation to ensure it happens at the appropriate time, bumping the version, etc.

[bryantbiggs]

Makefile seemed like the least amount of overhead (should most likely already be present on most machines) so I took an initial pass at this #731

[yannham]

Well, I would suggest Nix, as a believer 😛 , but mostly as a half-joke: I don't think it would pay for the complexity in such a project. FWIW, starting with something simple and ubiquitous like Makefile and see if we need something more capable (or more manageable, if the complexity grows) later sounds like a sensible approach to me 👍