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

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015, at 20:07, Robert Collins wrote:
> Wrong, no.  harder yes. C compilers have mature cross compiler build
> chains
> including stage aware test suites and the like. When a tool is it's own
> build dependency bootstrapping it on a new platform gains a hard
> requirement on cross compiling rather than it being a thing for special
> cases like platforms that cannot compile the tool.


That's what bootstrapping is. If you're not doing this, you're not
bootstrapping.