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by Chris2048 3213 days ago
You say the Pythonistas refused to use Gradle, but it also seems the JVM peeps refused to let go of it?

Isn't that the problem? Isn't Make more general than Gradle? If the project was primarily JVM, why couldn't the Pythonistas be forced to use whatever build system was mandated?
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meddlepal 3213 days ago
You'd have to reinvent a lot of wheels to replicate what Gradle (or Maven) does. For example dependency management, env setup and packaging. It would be similar to asking a Python developer to give up pip, setup/disttools and maybe virtualenv. In the end you want productive devs. Stripping away the tools they are productive with is counterproductive.
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Chris2048 3213 days ago
But surely these are targets for make?

e.g a pip target that builds a python dep folder. You can do the same for Java with Apache Ivy.

Is Gradle not a make like system with a lot of JVM-specific functionality built in?

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