On 11/11/2019 14:23, Rhodri James wrote:
On 09/11/2019 23:50, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 09/11/2019 21:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 2:10 AM Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote:
On 07/11/2019 20:20, Vitaly Potyarkin wrote:
What do you think of using Makefiles for automating common chores in
Python projects? Like linting, type checking and testing?
I've come up with a reusable Makefile for automating virtual
environment
management in Python projects. I think it can be useful for
simplifying
the onboarding of new developers (both new to project and new to
Python)
and for documenting project's development practices.
Here it is:
- Repo: https://github.com/sio/Makefile.venv
- Demo screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/279646
What do you think? Is this useful or I'm just unaware of some tool
that
abstracts venv chores away better?
As others have said, make is a useful tool and many people use it for
different purposes in their Python projects. Nothing wrong with that.
HOWEVER, at risk of stating the obvious, using Makefiles written
for/on
*nix systems on Windows is a bit of a hassle. If, for some reason,
your
software is *nix-only anyway, that's fine. If not, using make means
sacrificing some portability.
If your software runs on Windows, of you think it might run on Windows
in the future, maybe consider writing simple Python scripts for
platform-independent tasks rather than makefiles and shell scripts.
Are you assuming that every Windows system has Python, but that you
can't get make or bash? Because neither half of that is true. I've
happily used makefiles on Windows, and these days, bash is as easy to
get hold of as Python is.
ChrisA
That's why I say "a bit of a hassle". You can get a MSYS set up
(whether from Git for Windows or otherwise). You can get it to play
nice with the right Python installation and the Python scripts you
presumably want to call from the Makefile. But all of that is a bit
of a hassle.
If you've got almost any development environment for Windows, you've
got a version of make. I quite like the NMake that comes with Visual
Studio, for example, and use it in preference to the IDE when I can.
Yes, it's a hassle, but it's a hassle you're going to go through anyway.
I'm sure it's possible to write Makefiles that work with both GNU make
and NMake, but I imagine it's a rather limiting and thankless enterprise.
Is that something you actually do? (Maybe it's great, I really wouldn't
know. Do tell!)
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