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Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> writes:

> Looking at the wiki list of build tools
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigurationAndBuildTools
>
> Has anyone much experience in build tools as i have no preference or
> experience to lean on.

I'm quite fine with GNU Make, so haven't really tried a lot of others.

I am fascinated by what I've seen of Meson <URL:http://mesonbuild.com/>.
It claims to behave very well with operating system package managers,
which if true makes it unique among Python-based build systems.

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