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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by majewsky on Sunday January 21, 2018 @11:43AM (#16198673)
> These days, I simply use Python scripts where separate functions describe what's to be done for each build target.

Congratulations, you're reimplemented make(1), except with Python instead of shell scripts.

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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by mherrmann on Sunday January 21, 2018 @11:56AM (#16198742)
Besides several other differences between a Make build and a Python script, which your reply ignores, I do much prefer writing in Python over shell scripts.
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by ihnorton on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:13PM (#16199452)
Meson might be of interest.

http://mesonbuild.com/

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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by mherrmann on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:32PM (#16199522)
Interesting. But not Turing-complete? So if I run into a case it doesn't cover (which I will), I have to drop to another language/tech. Then why not go with that language in the first place?
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