include default build target in "detected build targets" with dune

[avsm]

If i press ctrl-shift-b to do a build in an OCaml project, the detected build tasks are quite verbose, but do not seem to include the default build target.

E.g. for realworldocaml/book we have thousands of targets:

...but I just want to build @site or just the default. Would the aliases be possible to put first on that list?

[avsm]

I just wanted to bump this, as I don't think it got noticed @rgrinberg. This is actually a big problem with RWO, since we have 1000s of targets in the book monorepo, but I really just want the build @site @runtest aliases exposed as build tasks and not all the other ones. Is it possible to just get aliases for the build tasks exposed from the plugin?

[rgrinberg]

cc @Khady. Why do the build tasks include targets like dune, dune-project, or dune-workspace?

Seems like we should really only need @all, @runtest, @install or @default per directory.

[avsm]

Seems like we should really only need @all, @runtest, @install or @default per directory

Agreed, and one for just the default (is that @install?). I'd skip the default per directory as there may be many directories and it's really slow to render them all -- a custom build task can be used for that for advanced users. It would be nice if custom aliases showed up in the list, but @all and @runtest and @install are the really important ones to have at the top.

Bonus points if adding watch mode is available from the default set :-)