Support other build systems

[jhamrick]

Currently, nbflow only supports scons, but there's not really any reason why it can't in principle support other build systems. For example, I could support waf and then there would be python 3 support! 🎉

[jhamrick]

From playing around with this a little bit it seems like waf is nontrivial. But it might be possible to have it create a makefile or something and still get python 3 support.

[belteshassar]

Just watched your Scipy talk on Youtube. Great stuff!

Have you looked at Luigi? It is used a lot for building pipelines in the data science community.

[jhamrick]

I haven't looked at Luigi before -- thanks for the tip!

[belteshassar]

I thought a bit about this during the weekend. I don't think it's as easy as I first thought to adapt nbflow to Luigi. The problem is that in Luigi you have to specify the depencies as tasks rather than targets.

[jhamrick]

I haven't had a chance to look in detail at it yet, but skimming through
the documentation it seems in principle something you should still be able
to do... though I agree definitely a little trickier since it's all
class-based.

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I thought a bit about this during the weekend. I don't think it's as easy
as I first thought to adapt nbflow to Luigi. The problem is that in Luigi
you have to specify the depencies as tasks rather than targets.

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[twmr]

Note that scons (>=3.0) already supports python3. Therefore, the README should be updated