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Cook – A Modern Build System Written in Python (getcook.org)
1 points by jachris 3217 days ago
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__d 3217 days ago
While I appreciate that there's a finite supply of names, Peter Miller's "cook" pre-dates this by a long time.

I'd encourage the authors to rename their project ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Miller_(software_enginee... https://launchpad.net/~pmiller-opensource/+archive/ubuntu/pp... http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/make/cook-2.25.rm.pdf http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/make/cook-2.25.ug.pdf

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dozzie 3217 days ago
What is modern about it? How does it compare to SCons that is more than a decade old?
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jachris 3217 days ago
You could take a look at https://getcook.org/docs/features/ or the examples provided at https://github.com/jachris/cook/tree/master/examples to know more.
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