Re:Python as a Build Tool
by unmdplyr on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:39PM
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As someone who's been involved in build engineering for quite a while, I'm not sure how Python is suddenly going to solve some real life build problems?
Both Meson and Bazel use Python, a heavy weight language as a configuration tool rather than actual build language. From that perspective you might think it is a replacement to CMake. But it then it quickly introduces its own quirks.
In the end, there's no single best solution to building. You do you. And some sad soul contributing to buildroot2 or OpenWRT will wrap your whatever build with a bunch of Makefiles and shell scripts.
Both Meson and Bazel use Python, a heavy weight language as a configuration tool rather than actual build language. From that perspective you might think it is a replacement to CMake. But it then it quickly introduces its own quirks.
In the end, there's no single best solution to building. You do you. And some sad soul contributing to buildroot2 or OpenWRT will wrap your whatever build with a bunch of Makefiles and shell scripts.