Please – A Cross-Language Build System

Post by thedirt0115 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

egnehots wrote: post #7

This looks so similar to Bazel.. What's the advantage of using Please?

Post by qznc » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:31 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #3

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

Post by a_t48 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC

Roboprog wrote: post #10

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” :-(

Post by awalton » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

iainmerrick wrote: post #16

shoover wrote: post #12

Earlier 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"?

Post by rajangdavis » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 11:12 PM UTC