You might also consider making it a consistently downloaded dependency if you plan to use any of it's advanced feature set, by dropping the `$(MAKECMDGOALS)` check.
There are lot of `GNU Make` alternatives but none have near the same level of ubiquity.
This project attaches to `make` some of the native features of [`just`](https://github.com/casey/just), a command runner.
Just is a great task runner, but it suffers two problems, users probably don't have it installed already, and there is no way to define file specific recipes.
Most of my `Makefile`'s are comprised primarily of handy `.PHONY` recipes, but I always end up with a few file specific recipes.
Another interesting project I've evaluated for these purposes is [`go-task/task`](https://github.com/go-task/task).
`Task` has many of the features of `GNU Make` and some novel features of it's own.
But like `just` it's a tool people don't usually already have and it's configured using a `yaml` file.
`Yaml` files can be finicky to work with and and it uses a golang based shell runtime, not your native shell, which might lead to unexpected behavior.
## Simpler Alternative
But I just want a basic help output, surely I don't need python for this... you would be right.
`Task.mk` replaces my old `make help` recipe boilerplate which may better serve you (so long as you have `sed`/`awk`).
