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

[Florian Bruhin]

* anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> [2015-03-18 10:21:46 +0300]:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >
> > Fbuild, Waf, Meson, GN, Boost.Build, Tundra, Bam, ...
> 
> Is there anything Javascriptey? Python needs to move to web. I heard
> something about Grunt, which was replaced by Gulp, but no idea if they
> really mature enough to include "system features detection" and "user
> configured builds" (or work with C/C++ compilers at all).

What does "Python needs to move to web" to do with it's build system
being "Javascriptey"?

Florian

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