Makefiles have been around since 1976! They are extremely useful almost 50 years later. Wow!
- make cheat-sheet - various solutions to make usage
I'm lazy, so when I need to release a new package that I maintain, I like to just type:
make release
and have it bump up the version, update CHANGES.md, tag the release, start a new dev branch, commit all that, build the pip/conda packages, upload them to pypi/conda servers, wait till they become available, install them and test that they work correctly. Speaking of lazy...
You can see an example of such powerful Makefile for my ipyexperiments package.
Here are some Makefiles from projects I worked on in the past and that were worth saving, so that parts of those could be re-used in new projects.
I did work on fastai a few years back and created a pretty complex Makefile that made a complicated release process with just make release. Of course, it has a bunch of other useful targets in it. After I left they were removed, so you can still find them here:
fastprogress is another of fastai projects which is much less complex and had a much simpler, yet still powerful Makefile.