Replace Makefile with Python or bash script
ruestefa opened this issue · comments
The Makefile has become super-complicated because the increasingly refined logic of some commands (e.g., detection and creation of conda environments) runs up against the very limited Makefile syntax. Because the main advantage of Makefiles -- namely, only executing what's not already done (only recompile changed files) -- is not much of a factor, it would be much more convenient to rewrite it in a more sophisticated language like Python of bash.