Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In some cases, it may be desirable to set an environment variable that applies to every task. For example, adding $PWD/.bin to the PATH so that tasks can reference a local version of an executable.
Describe the solution you'd like
Likely another top-level key, environment, that would look like this:
environment:
PATH: $PWD/.bin:$PATH
This would set the environment variables once at the start of task execution. It might make sense to name the key set-environment for consistency with the task option. The key difference here is that a top-level key could effectively be considered declarative (i.e., it describes the environment), where the task directive is necessarily imperative to resolve ambiguities around what the environment of a sub-task should look like.
Additional context
Related: #72
While this isn't a good fix long-term for specifying an interpreter, it is better ergonomically that what we have now while we figure out a better solution, and it covers a couple other use cases mentioned.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In some cases, it may be desirable to set an environment variable that applies to every task. For example, adding
$PWD/.binto thePATHso that tasks can reference a local version of an executable.Describe the solution you'd like
Likely another top-level key,
environment, that would look like this:This would set the environment variables once at the start of task execution. It might make sense to name the key
set-environmentfor consistency with the task option. The key difference here is that a top-level key could effectively be considered declarative (i.e., it describes the environment), where the task directive is necessarily imperative to resolve ambiguities around what the environment of a sub-task should look like.Additional context
Related: #72
While this isn't a good fix long-term for specifying an interpreter, it is better ergonomically that what we have now while we figure out a better solution, and it covers a couple other use cases mentioned.