Cross language but not cross platform -- no windows support, and none planned.
No Windows support is more of a feature than a downside.
Please – A Cross-Language Build System
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Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#22Please bazel, buck or pants?
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's tuned to the preferences of another company; if you prefer their taste on the finer points, that's one. Secondly, it's written in Go, so installation should be simpler.
What's hard about "brew install bazel"?
Why should I have to install the jdk for a build tool when I’m not using Java myself?
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's tuned to the preferences of another company; if you prefer their taste on the finer points, that's one. Secondly, it's written in Go, so installation should be simpler.
What's hard about "brew install bazel"?
I mean simple in terms of the theoretical possibility of a single binary vs. any form of local compilation, packaging, or dependencies. In practice, I didn’t check, maybe they depend on other native libraries and installation is more than downloading a single executable.
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#25This looks so similar to Bazel.. What's the advantage of using Please?
It's tuned to the preferences of another company; if you prefer their taste on the finer points, that's one. Secondly, it's written in Go, so installation should be simpler.
Downvote? Both points were stated in the FAQ. I did extrapolate from Go to the installation point.
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#26Nice work, I will try using it on my next project.
404 Not Found WinLover at localhost.
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#27The name is not very google friendly. It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to find examples for my specific use-case.
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#28I dislike that the only way they list to install is "curl https://get.please.build | bash". I know it's fast and easy but it really leaves your computer at their mercy.
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#29Cross language but not cross platform -- no windows support, and none planned.
Wow. How is a system not supporting the most widespread desktop platform on the planet claiming to be cross-platform?
Having said that, there might be a way. From their FAQ:
> It might well be possible to make it work using Cygwin or MinGW / MSYS, or the recent Ubuntu on Windows development though. We aren't doing this work ourselves because we don't have any Windows machines, but we're happy to accept PRs in that direction.
Not sure I want to use a platform which the dev team can't test (and there are other alternatives), but it might work after all.
A side remark, the link posted below in this thread contains an awesome "awesome" list. For those interested, here is a (truly) awesome list of dataset resources: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets.
Re: Please – A Cross-Language Build System
#30> Also we chose the domain name before almost anything else (priorities!).
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem :P