Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by zuzun on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:27AM (#13865908)

These build systems become super handy once you're working on a large tree of many different software projects. For small projects not so much. It's probably easier to use the default build system of your programming language.

When make fails me for personal stuff, I switch to ninja [1]. The Chromium people use it in their Bazel-like build system. A hidden gem I recently discovered is doit [2]. I found this one incredibly helpful when I had a build with tons of 1:N, N:1, N:M dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja [2] http://pydoit.org/

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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by danso on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:41AM (#13867002)

Thanks for the suggestions! That "doit" looks like it's simple enough for my fairly pedestrian needs. I wonder if my aversion to Make is that I don't spend enough time thinking/making Makefiles, but having something a little friendlier and simpler -- at the cost of ubiquity/portability -- might be the kind of training wheels I need.

Edit: FWIW, I posted doit to r/python and someone suggestion Snakemake, which also looks excellent and well-maintained: http://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by edraferi on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:42AM (#13867009)

> A hidden gem I recently discovered is doit [2]. I found this one incredibly helpful when I had a build with tons of 1:N, N:1, N:M dependencies.

> [2] http://pydoit.org/

Thanks for this! I need a build tool for a Python based data analysis project ("micro ETL"?). Doit looks like it will work nicely, with the bonus of keeping everything in Python.

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