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Nemesis: a Rake like task management for Haskell with a nice DSL (BSD3 license)

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It looks great, but I just installed it via cabal and the examples on the github page fail to parse.

Does it require a particular version of of ghc?

I have:

    Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.10.2, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 6.10.1

edit: After some guesswork I managed to build a cabal package from the source and re-installed, and it looks good. Perhaps something in the readme should mention steps needed to build from source?

Super cool. Gonna play with it later tonight. Thanks for the link.

Make it "a rake like task management written in Haskell with a nice DSL for everyone" and I'll take a look. Why would a want to use a task management tool that is explicitly targeted at a single language?

"for" as in, the software is written on top of and in Haskell. As in, it's exactly what you just described.

The trouble is that to run more complex operations, it's nice to have a high-level language to write your tasks in. Rake uses Ruby for this, and Nemesis Haskell.

Either app can be used for other purposes, for example, I use Rake to compile/run tests on my C# projects as an alternative to NAnt.

It's not targeted at a single language. Just like rake with regards to ruby, I could use this to perform tasks unrelated to haskell code.

The short description says "a rake like task management tool _____for______ haskell". It doesn't say "written in haskell".

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