Advice on Python build tools

[Sayth Renshaw]

Thanks for the tips. Doit does look interesting.

Regarding template plugins with Nikola the plugins would be only for python
template alternatives such as mako.

Mainly i find the whitespace and readability of Jade/pug far more pythonic
than all tge brackets {% .... %} yes its a minor thing but so much clearer.

Anyway checked out mako which has some improvement might see if there is
another with support and create a nikola plugin and then give it a try.

Cheers

Sayth

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 1:19 am Chris Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 April 2016 at 11:48, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Looking at the wiki list of build tools
> > https://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigurationAndBuildTools
> >
> > Has anyone much experience in build tools as i have no preference or
> experience to lean on.
> >
> > Off descriptions only i would choose invoke.
> >
> > My requirements, simply i want to learn and build a simple static
> website generator. Many i am not liking design of or are overkill so its a
> good opportunity to learn, logya is a good starting point for what i think
> a good python static generator should be.
> >
> > Second i want to use Jade templates (js) as i think they are more
> pythonic than jinja and mako so being able to have mixed js and python
> support would be needed.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Sayth
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>
> Here’s a great static site generator (disclaimer, I’m a core dev over
> there):
>
> https://getnikola.com/
>
> We use doit, which is on that list. With doit, we get an existing
> build system, and incremental rebuilds — for free. I recommend you try
> Nikola, and if you don’t like it and still want to build something
> yourself, doit is going to be a great way to do it. That said,
> incremental builds often involve trial-and-error and subtle bugs when
> you start working on it. And if you don’t like doit, you can always
> write your own build micro-system. Because if you want to write
> something simple and minimal, an existing large build system will just
> make things harder.
>
> As for Jade templates, you can’t do that reasonably. You would need to
> produce some hack to spawn a JavaScript subprocess, and it would limit
> what you can use in templates. Instead, look for a template system
> that is written in Python and that has similar syntax.
>
> (also, I wouldn’t consider such weird-thing-into-real-HTML template
> engines pythonic)
>
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