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17.29 cask

“Project management tool for Emacs”

• Emacs Cask
• GitHub Source
• ReadTheDocs

Cask is a project management tool for Emacs Lisp to automate the package development cycle; development, dependencies, testing, building, packaging and more. Cask is an Emacs Lisp project management tool, similar to Maven or Leiningen. It aims to control and automate the entire life cycle of an Emacs Lisp package, including dependency management, packaging, distribution and testing.

Cask can also be used to manage dependencies for your local Emacs configuration.

It’s based on a Cask file, which identifies an Emacs Lisp package, provides meta information about the package, and declares its contents and dependencies.

• Ruby projects have a gemspec file?
• Node.js projects have a package.json file?
• Clojure projects have a project.clj file?
• Emacs Lisp projects have a Cask file?

We will argue that some Emacs Lisp projects may not benefit directly from using Cask. Those are the projects that:

• Do not have any dependencies
• Do not have any tests
• Do not care about consistency
• Do not care about compiler warnings
• Do not want to make it easy for contributors

So all in all, projects that are not worth using.