The (un)suitability of Make for Python projects (was: Re: Ret urning none)

Bjorn Pettersen bjorn at roguewave.com
Mon Aug 30 09:54:47 EDT 1999


>     Paul> I know all about make, but in an all-Python project 
> (the best
>     Paul> kind) it is not much value.
> 
> I respectfully disagree.  There is much more to most 
> successful projects
> than building executables.  Building end-user documentation, 
> running tests,
> generating TAGS files, etc. are all appropriate in an 
> all-Python project.

And for some reason I always seem to end up with Python programs writing
Python programs...

who-needs-a-preprocessor-when-you-have-python'ly y'rs -- bjorn




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