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From: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice on Python build tools
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:19:40 +0200
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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 expe=
rience 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 op=
portunity 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 pythoni=
c than jinja and mako so being able to have mixed js and python support wou=
ld be needed.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Sayth
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Here=E2=80=99s a great static site generator (disclaimer, I=E2=80=99m a cor=
e 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 =E2=80=94 for free. I recommend you =
try
Nikola, and if you don=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99t consider such weird-thing-into-real-HTML template
engines pythonic)

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