On 29 Jul, 17:08, Hussein B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apache Ant is the de facto building tool for Java (whether JSE, JEE > and JME) application. > With Ant you can do what ever you want: compile, generate docs, > generate code, packing, deploy, connecting to remote servers and every > thing. > Do we have such a tool for Python projects?
There are quite a few similar tools here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigurationAndBuildTools Having looked at a few such tools recently, I found myself considering using plain old make for automating various non-compilation-related activities, but then again, plain Python is actually very good for automation if you get into the right mindset. Consequently, I've just written a bunch of functions which run programs, test outputs and potentially feed those outputs to other programs. Where most of the available generic tools seem to frustrate is in their support of the often necessary but complicated behaviour required to minimise the amount of unnecessary work performed, through frameworks which seem to obscure the nature of the work itself. I do understand that it can be awkward to work out which object files need recompiling due to changes in source files, for example, and that one doesn't want to see the logic involved reproduced all over the place, but I do wonder whether the machinery around such matters isn't sometimes more complicated in these tools as soon as one strays outside the common cases. It seems to me that some common build-related primitives implemented as functions combined with plain Python would be a good enough combination for a lot of tasks in this domain. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
