I have a “meta” project that includes about a dozen folders, and thousands of files. Here is a simplified example
Work/
cli/ # Go modules project
website/ # Elixir website
analysis/ # various Python, Bash scripts
I’d like to run “Ctrl+B” or use a context menu to run builds in a language specific way.
The “normal” integrations won’t work. For instance, an Elixir build doesn’t work, because my “Work” directory itself isn’t the root of an Elixir project:
** (Mix) Could not find a Mix.Project, please ensure you are running Mix in a directory with a mix.exs file
I am resigned to writing my own scripts or even Python modules to deal with this issue, but I am curious how others have approached this problem. I can’t be the only one using Sublime to open all their work projects at once.
I am thinking that a clean way to approach this would be to create a context menu item on the sidebar that runs a build inside that folder. That context menu would use some heuristics to select what command to run. For example, If I right clicked on the “cli” folder mentioned above, my context menu item would somehow execute “go test” intead of “mix test”.
I am interested in hearing about other approaches, though.