← Back to context Comment by dirtbag__dad 19 hours ago Can you help me understand what the value or use case of poethepoet is? 1 comment dirtbag__dad Reply jacobtomlinson 12 hours ago It allows you to define common tasks such as linting, running tests, building docs, etc under an alias.So you can runuv run poe docsInstead ofuv run sphinx-build -W -b dirhtml docs/source docs/buildMany languages have a task runners baked into their package manager, but many others don’t. In Ruby it’s roughly the equivalent of Rake.
jacobtomlinson 12 hours ago It allows you to define common tasks such as linting, running tests, building docs, etc under an alias.So you can runuv run poe docsInstead ofuv run sphinx-build -W -b dirhtml docs/source docs/buildMany languages have a task runners baked into their package manager, but many others don’t. In Ruby it’s roughly the equivalent of Rake.
It allows you to define common tasks such as linting, running tests, building docs, etc under an alias.
So you can run
uv run poe docs
Instead of
uv run sphinx-build -W -b dirhtml docs/source docs/build
Many languages have a task runners baked into their package manager, but many others don’t. In Ruby it’s roughly the equivalent of Rake.