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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> But to miss-paraphrase Winston Churchill [1]:
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>> "Autotools is the worst build system except for all the others."
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>> Is there really something better out there?
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> 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).