FEATURE REQUEST: default task

[skull-squadron]

The simplest way seems to be to look for a task named "default" and append it to ARGV.clone when it's empty?. If there's no task named default, then raise.

Current hack:

task "default", ["do:something", "something:else"] do
end

ARGV << "default" if ARGV.empty?
Sam.help

[imdrasil]

thank you for this suggestion. Is it dictated by a real world scenario of just a suggestion? From my experience such kind of behavior would not be expected - normally you always have some kind of "script/task name" to execute (e.g. in npm, ruby's rake and so on).

[skull-squadron]

There's a need to automatically rebuild local dev tools including sam, ameba, and sentry based on configuration .cr files. Rebuilding each every time would be wasteful. rake has a default task, and it happens so do make and just. If it's not obvious, they support both file and phony targets to avoid unnecessary expensive tasks. npm is a different use-case unrelated to a statically-compiled language such as Crystal.

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[imdrasil]

looks reasonable. I'll take a look at this later this week