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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> The subject line mentions "Part 2". Is there a link to "Part 1"? What is the
> rationale for changing?
>
> Make, autoconf, and automake are already widely ported/portable.

"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.

> What are the criteria for evaluating alternatives?

Python 3 support and beautiful output to console? =)