August

August is a task-based build system with a strong focus on parallelism.

Installation

The recommended installation method is via Cargo:

cargo install august-build

To install from source:

git clone https://github.com/ScratchCat458/august-build

cd august-build

cargo install --path .

Documentation

August's user documentation can be found at https://august-build.web.app. Internal docs can be found on docs.rs though everything is mostly undocumented.

Brilliant Crates

August is only made possible thanks to the efforts of many others. Here they all are:

• ariadne: Beautiful parser error handling by @zesterer
• chumsky: My new favourite parser combinator library (also by @zesterer)
• clap: Derive-based command-line argument parser
• clap_complete: Generator for command line autocompletions, see august completions
• comfy-table: Beautiful table generation for august info and august inspect by @Nukesor
• crossbeam-utils: Makes my spin blocking implementation less bad
• dircpy: Recursive directory copying for August's fs::copy by @woelper
• owo-colors: Vibrant colouring for displaying CLI execution by @jam1garner
• thiserror: Helper for implementing std::error::Error by @dtolnay
• which: Magic that makes August's exec work better by @harryfei

If you use August in your project, you can add this badge to your README:

[![Built with August](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20with-august-blueviolet)](https://github.com/ScratchCat458/august-build)