Please – A Cross-Language Build System • Hacker News Board

waf continues to be the underappreciated gem in this space: high level build language supporting many languages and tools, cross platform, implemented and extensible in Python, nothing to install (except Python), and fast.

Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System

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Post by egnehots » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 9:54 PM UTC

This looks so similar to Bazel..

What's the advantage of using Please?

Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System

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Post by napa15 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

funkythingss wrote: post #2

this looks very interesting! Has anyone used it before?

well I tried but they dont have samples so I gave up, no point in spending hours in reading docs and setting up something for a build system that may be useless. It also seemed suspiciously identical to bazel with really no features that may be special in any way? I mean really, why use this and not just bazel. The webpage doesnt even say

Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System

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Post by Rewqtr133 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #3

Cross language but not cross platform -- no windows support, and none planned.

So, it's like a worthless version of Bazel?

Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System

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Post by Roboprog » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:25 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #3

Cross language but not cross platform -- no windows support, and none planned.

MS Windows: That’s why we can’t have nice things.

Solution: don’t invite the village idiot of OS’s to the party :-)

Windows is why we can’t just use “Make”, and ended up with abominations like “Ant” :-(