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

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That written in Python, so Python would require Python to build which
>> would require Python to build which would require...
>>
>
> Well, you can't buid a C compiler without a C compiler either (or SOME
> compiler). And given that you should be able to do cross-compilation for
> platforms that don't currently have a python build, I'm not sure that's a
> killer.
>
> It it so wrong that python eats its own dog food in this manner?
>
>
It's not as much "Python eat its own dog food" as "cross-compiling natively
would be even harder than it is right now."

C compilers are available on virtually every UNIX that's ever been created
since the 70's, including AIX, Plan 9, Solaris, etc.

Python? Not as much.


> -CHB
>
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-- 
Ryan
[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your
program. Something’s wrong.
http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
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