all these "make for beginners" tutorials i've seen point out (correctly) how make is, at its most basic, just a dsl for specifying a dag.
it seems to me that it would be pretty useful to have a tool that let you build up said dag graphically, perhaps dragging and dropping files from an explorer pane, and then generated a makefile under the hood.
add in simple "infinite undo" git support that checkpointed every time you built with new inputs, and you'd have a dead simple way for non-programmers (who nonetheless have to do some programming to work with their data) to get the benefits of programming best practices. does such a tool exist?
it seems to me that it would be pretty useful to have a tool that let you build up said dag graphically, perhaps dragging and dropping files from an explorer pane, and then generated a makefile under the hood.
add in simple "infinite undo" git support that checkpointed every time you built with new inputs, and you'd have a dead simple way for non-programmers (who nonetheless have to do some programming to work with their data) to get the benefits of programming best practices. does such a tool exist?