On 12 April 2016 at 11:48, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@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 > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
