Re: Getting rid of build tools

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> 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