python rewrite of compile.sh

[jemand771]

when I first created this container, compile.sh only consited of a couple of commands, nothing fancy. By now, there are a lot of aditional features and checks in place that make the bash file really complicated.

In order to ease future devlopment, I should rewrite the script in python. This should not have any noticable side effects on using the container (same functionality, same interface, etc.).