gulp.run deprecation

[steida]

Hi,

I am not sure how to configure behaviour I need. Imagine I have two tasks, coffee and stylus, which I want run after clean task. But I also want to be able to call coffee and stylus tasks directly without clean. Yes, I call these tasks from own file watcher. The only solution I see is to have some build task:

gulp.task 'build', ['clean', 'stylus', 'coffee']

But this works only if clean can be run in parallel with stylus and coffee. I don't see how to configure it with current api.

Second question, this is my watch task.

gulp.task 'watch', ->
  esteWatch _.union(stylesDirs, scriptsDirs), (e) ->
    changedFile = e.filepath
    switch e.extension
      when 'styl'
        gulp.run 'stylus'
      when 'coffee'
        gulp.run 'coffee'
      when 'js'
        console.log changedFile
  .start()

What should I use instead of gulp.run?

Thank you for answer and really refreshing gulp design.

[robrich]

robrich/orchestrator#21 is tracking a similar design movement that would make this possible directly. In the shortest term, gulp.run() is the correct choice.

[phated]

@robrich I think you are incorrect in how this task should be written. Having a switch statement inside a gulp.watch call doesn't make any sense. You should be doing 3 gulp.watch calls with the correct globs.

[steida]

@phated Note I am not using gulp-watch, I am using https://github.com/steida/este-watch. There is no globbing, just dirs and extensions. I can't use official gulp-watch, because it burns my CPU.

[phated]

I think the real answer is to not build things that rely on deprecated features. Your module was created 4 days ago, but gulp.run deprecation has been in the changelog for 6 or 7 days, I believe.

Note: gulp.start was not deprecated.

[steida]

I was looking at https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/API.md, not source code, me bad. Now I see Gulp inherits from Orchestrator and things makes sense. Thank you for hint.

[kosmik-koi]

Ran into the same problem with dependancies. Found https://npmjs.org/package/run-sequence that seems to do the trick