From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting rid of build tools
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:22:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9j14t2q.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151229024210.GA6816@thebird.nl>
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> This is actually an interesting topic. GNU Make does a number of
> things well (note, btw, that it has Guile support), but it has
> problems too. In short, in addition to
>
> 1. The sucky non-functional macro system
>
> 2. Make files are hard to read (and maintain)
>
> 3. Does dependencies on time stamps
>
> the last is a real problem on cluster builds, which becomes visible
> with bioinformatics pipelines using make.
Why is this a problem?
Snakemake (like make but with Python syntax) is very popular here and
often used for pipelines.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-29 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 8:23 Getting rid of build tools Pjotr Prins
2015-12-28 15:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-28 19:05 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 1:47 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 2:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 7:22 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2015-12-29 15:26 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 15:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-29 15:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 22:21 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-29 23:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-01 7:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-29 15:39 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-06 5:22 ` Pjotr Prins
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