Made is a simple reactive build tool. If a file changes, every dependency of this file will be rebuilt. This project is heavily inspired by tup.

The build system needs a simple configuration file (Madefile) in the current folder. It is composed of shell commands on every line.

Made watches all files enclosed in '<|' and '|>'. If the glob pattern inside matches, the command on this line is executed.

cp <|.hgignore|> .gitignore
cp <|.gitignore|> .hgignore
cp <|*.txt|> dir
cp <|*.txt|> build/%b.html

The first line copies .hgignore to .gitignore if .hgignore is modified. The second line does the same in reverse (probably not a good idea :-)). The third line copies every changed *.txt file to the folder "dir". The last line copies every *.txt file from the current folder to the folder "dir" and changes the extension to .html, if a *.txt file has changed.

When made is executed it will run indefinitely and execute the above commands on every matching file change event (newly added or modified).

go get github.org/ronabu/made

If You have a properly configured Go environment.

• Not stable yet
• Only OS X is currently supported.
• No concurrency
• Uses polling to find file modifications
• No string escaping in Madefile