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boot-clj / boot

Build tooling for Clojure.
https://boot-clj.github.io/
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Have boot -h differentiate custom task #620

Open arichiardi opened 7 years ago

arichiardi commented 7 years ago

Hello! 😁

I have introduced boot to a few colleagues now and I feel there should be a clear delimitation in the boot -h between tasks that are provided by boot itself and the one provided by the local build.boot. This is very good for discovery of the functionality of the package.

Say I have repl and dev, I want my developers to use dev not repl for developing. It is true I can write a description "use this not repl", but nobody unfortunately would read this.

I can go as far as proposing a :hidden metadata of some sort that would allow the library maintainer to keep only the tasks that are necessary for usage. No other tasks to pollute the space. Of course they can still be used by savvy devs, but they don't appear in boot -h.

Ideas? Comments? 👍 ? 👎 ?

Thanks!

arichiardi commented 7 years ago

Actually I would need to add metadata to an existing task so probably something else can be implemented.