Re: Ability to print the make database as json - experimental

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 21:07, David A. Wheeler <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>
> > On Mar 18, 2025, at 1:21 PM, Tim Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I've recently updated and rebased my experimental fork of make with the
> branch that dumps the internal database of the makefile to JSON format
> files.
>
> I would *dearly* love to have the ability to receive a dump of the
> makefile database in JSON format.
>
> There are many tools that can pretty-print JSON once you have it. So if
> formatting the JSON is hard,
> I suggest not focusing on it. Let other tools that focus on that job do it.
>

Yes you're right!   I think the main thing left to do is directories. After
that some better way to build a single json from the multiple outputs for
each submake.

I cannot at the moment see this being added to make proper - at least not
for some time.  So it's still a thing one has to build to use - but perhaps
I can come up with a PPA or some other thing like that to make it a bit
easier to get.

Regards,

Tim