On 07/11/2019 20:20, Vitaly Potyarkin wrote:
What do you think of using Makefiles for automating common chores in
Python projects? Like linting, type checking and testing?
I've come up with a reusable Makefile for automating virtual environment
management in Python projects. I think it can be useful for simplifying
the onboarding of new developers (both new to project and new to Python)
and for documenting project's development practices.
Here it is:
- Repo: https://github.com/sio/Makefile.venv
- Demo screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/279646
What do you think? Is this useful or I'm just unaware of some tool that
abstracts venv chores away better?
As others have said, make is a useful tool and many people use it for
different purposes in their Python projects. Nothing wrong with that.
HOWEVER, at risk of stating the obvious, using Makefiles written for/on
*nix systems on Windows is a bit of a hassle. If, for some reason, your
software is *nix-only anyway, that's fine. If not, using make means
sacrificing some portability.
If your software runs on Windows, of you think it might run on Windows
in the future, maybe consider writing simple Python scripts for
platform-independent tasks rather than makefiles and shell scripts.
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