Key off an external file's modtime about bkt HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the input! Extracting dependencies from the command's arguments is a really interesting idea, but getting it right+robust might be more heavyweight than bkt could reasonably implement. Have you taken a look at Bazel for this use-case? It's great for incremental builds, and way more flexible and powerful than make.

That said, please share anything you come up with using bkt! I'd be very curious to see it and it would definitely help inform this feature request.

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This works now and will be released as part of 0.6.0.

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Thanks for documenting your workaround @dimo414. I'm considering bkt for a simple make-like replacement that can perform builds based on a list of dependencies. Detecting whether the dependencies have changed (i.e. file modification or file hash) would be very helpful in this regard. Another option would be to specify the type of a positional argument (e.g. --0=file). bkt can then use that information to perform change detection via modtime, hash, etc.

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