fillest / bold

a software build automation tool

Bold — a software build automation tool

Features

• Build scripts are simple declarative Python code
• Built-in builders for C
• Works on Linux and Windows
• Easy to write custom builders
• No external dependencies (just argparse for Python 2.6), small hackable codebase
• Builder-level script code change detection

Setup

PyPI package is available: pypi.python.org/pypi/bold

If you are new to Python and just want to make this thing work ASAP, to install latest released version system-wide:

sudo easy_install bold

If you use virtualenv, pip, etc.:

pip install bold

To install latest development version:

pip install git+https://github.com/fillest/bold.git

Issues

Please submit bugs, feature requests or any feedback to issue tracker

License

See licence.txt (MIT License)

bold's Issues

including other boldscripts (e.g. submodules)

tests

resolve '*' in paths

e.g. libcgmath-*.so -> libcgmath-59b95bb1e4c922dd-0.1.so

deb package

move copying/updating boilerplate to methods

config file

to set frequently used args/env/settings/..
e.g. if i want to set some flag and always pass it, move it to config
also it allows to use multiple configs (+ config inheritance?)

external task integration

use case:

1. someone makes a custom builder, a git repo, package it to pypi ("included" tasks should be made this way btw)
2. user installs bold, installs this package and his build just works

bold version checking in script

also should be able to check minimum git revision

rename util.create_dir_recursive

see os.makedirs in python 3

unnecessary module-level change warning

• on reset
• on clean?
• ?

link user cli args with builders, save state, rebuild on arg change

check that target exists in _update_target

use .gitignore with making source file list?

or it's not a problem anymore (with source copying)?

add --version

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/argparse.html#action

rename builder -> task

colored output

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-with-colors-using-python/287944#287944
print "test\033[92mtest\033[0mtest" does work

check https://martine.github.io/ninja/

-v levels

parallelization

fix required_by

don't print stacktrace if shell_run fails

configure-style linked library checks