[Python-ideas] Rewriting the build system (part 2)

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 13, 2015 2:41 PM, "Ryan Gonzalez" <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That written in Python, so Python would require Python to build which
> would require Python to build which would require...
> >
> > Besides, SCons sucks. If I were using a build system written in Python,
> I'd use fbuild or Waf.
>
> Apparently, Waf started as a fork of SCons. [1][2]
>
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12569463/choosing-between-scons-and-waf-in-large-projects
> [2] http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools#Waf
>

But it's now better.


> I don't know anything about fbuild; others might.
>

https://github.com/felix-lang/fbuild


> A feature/alternative matrix could be helpful (in addition to a
> preliminary implementation) for making a cogent argument (in PEP form
> [3][4]). This is possible in RST with table or list-table syntax.
>
> [3] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#pep-formats-and-templates
> [4] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0009/
>



-- 
Ryan
[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your
program. Something’s wrong.
http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
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