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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
> * 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"?

Because things like Twisted are de-facto standard in JavaScript world
(Node.js), and Python will benefit more if people look for how things are
implemented in non-C worlds.
-- 
anatoly t.