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

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

> Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at ...> writes:
> > I hate most tools that ship with configure scripts because 70% of the
> time
> some stupid test does some stupid thing wrong and gives the worst errors,
> 29% of the time the configure system doesn't pick up my options correctly,
> and 1% of the time it actually *works*.
>
> That's just not true.  Also, the small build issue that triggered
> this thread is already tracked here:
>
>    http://bugs.python.org/issue22625
>
>
You've evidently had better luck than I usually have.


>
> It seems more productive to me to fix that rather than rewrite the
> build system.  Users don't have an unlimited tolerance for pointless
> churn.
>
>
Lots and lots of projects have moved from autotools to about everything
else.

It's slow, annoying, and generates huge files (the 5k-line configure.ac
generates a 17k-line configure script). And largely pointless, since
nowadays few like it anymore.


>
>
> Stefan Krah
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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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