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

[Chris Barker]

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?

-CHB

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