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

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:24 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Autotools has reached the Chandrasekhar mass limit of software and
> become a black hole of suck that consumes endless hours of bright
> peoples’ time without any good result. It is well past time for it to
> die." (c) "Autotools must die", ESR. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877
>
> I couldn't sum up this better. It looks even worse from Windows machine.
>

Is it even used for building Python on Windows (for the "normal" python.org
builds)?

But to miss-paraphrase Winston Churchill [1]:

"Autotools is the worst build system except for all the others."

Is there really something better out there?

-CHB

[1]
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/267224-democracy-is-the-worst-form-of-government-except-for-all

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