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Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System

19 replies on 2 pages. Most recent reply: Apr 29, 2014 6:23 AM by Andy Doddington

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Dmitry Cheryasov

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Re: Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System Posted: Nov 4, 2008 5:26 AM
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In SCons, you can return lists of files from target rules and depend on these files, not known beforehand. Probably the system presented in the post can follow this convention.

Dirk Detering

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Re: Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System Posted: Nov 6, 2008 5:00 AM
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Bruce, regarding Ant (for Java building), Rake (for being on Top of a PL), Python (for staying in same language):

Perhaps you should have a look at gradle (http://www.gradle.org), an upcoming build tool even fit for larger projects. Primarily built on Groovy yet, the author's idea is to provide eventually a Java core and let it be used by other languages (see roadmap: "Supporting multiple languages for build scripts (e.g. JRuby, Jython)" ).

Bruce Eckel

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Re: Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System Posted: Nov 6, 2008 9:12 AM
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Yes, I'll have a look at that for ideas.

I'm actually using and liking my build system for the Python book, although I've also been discovering more ways it needs to be modified. So I'll be doing a redesign.

I do find it quite delightful to be able to live in Python mode for the build system, rather than changing gears. After many years of using make, it's very pleasant to know I don't have to think "how do you do this in make" and worse "I wonder if it's even possible to do this?" but just to write Python.

Robert Price

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Re: Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System Posted: Nov 6, 2008 1:01 PM
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Looks like you're building ANTLR in Python, although I like the comment about dependency requirements being very important to anything above the toy level.

Andy Doddington

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Re: Python Decorators III: A Decorator-Based Build System Posted: Apr 29, 2014 6:23 AM
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Where is the promised "Python Decorators IV" - meant to cover class decorators? Given that Python Decorators III was written in 2008, part IV seems like a long time in coming?

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