On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org>
wrote:

>
> My personal opinion: if the full power of python would be available, the
> build
> scripts would quickly turn into real programs, because programmers would be
> tempted to do so if all of python would be available. Then developers would
> have to understand two programs: the program itself, and the "build
> program".


The problem is when you have to do a real program for your build system
anyways (which occurs one day or another for any large enough project I
guess).
Currently it's a real pain (but it'd be even more painful to have to ship
Python / Bash / $script_language as part of your build system).
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