Re: Advice on Python build tools

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On 12 April 2016 at 11:48, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> Off descriptions only i would choose invoke.
>
> My requirements, simply i want to learn and build a simple static website generator. Many i am not liking design of or are overkill so its a good opportunity to learn, logya is a good starting point for what i think a good python static generator should be.
>
> Second i want to use Jade templates (js) as i think they are more pythonic than jinja and mako so being able to have mixed js and python support would be needed.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Sayth
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Here’s a great static site generator (disclaimer, I’m a core dev over there):

https://getnikola.com/

We use doit, which is on that list. With doit, we get an existing
build system, and incremental rebuilds — for free. I recommend you try
Nikola, and if you don’t like it and still want to build something
yourself, doit is going to be a great way to do it. That said,
incremental builds often involve trial-and-error and subtle bugs when
you start working on it. And if you don’t like doit, you can always
write your own build micro-system. Because if you want to write
something simple and minimal, an existing large build system will just
make things harder.

As for Jade templates, you can’t do that reasonably. You would need to
produce some hack to spawn a JavaScript subprocess, and it would limit
what you can use in templates. Instead, look for a template system
that is written in Python and that has similar syntax.

(also, I wouldn’t consider such weird-thing-into-real-HTML template
engines pythonic)

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Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
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Advice on Python build tools Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 02:48 -0700
  Re: Advice on Python build tools Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 03:04 -0700
  Re: Advice on Python build tools Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-12 21:10 +1000
    Re: Advice on Python build tools Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 07:16 -0700
  Re: Advice on Python build tools Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 17:19 +0200
  Re: Advice on Python build tools Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 09:44 +0000

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