gslindst...@gmail.com wrote: > My company is looking at creating a tool to allow us to define and > manage a process for each job we run (a typical job may be look on a > customers ftp site for a file, download it, decrypt it and load it into > our database). We would like something which would allow us to glue > together various existing processes we currently use into a single unit > with multiple steps. Along the way, this new routine would need to log > its progress and be able to report and even handle errors. A coworker > has suggested we look at Ant ("Another Neat Tool") and, though it looks > promising, I have reservations. If I recall correctly, it was intended > as a replacement for "Make" and I worry that we may be trying to force > Ant to be something it is not. Also, most of our code base is in Python > and I'd really like to stay that way, of possible. > > Are there any systems out there that will allow me to run multiple > programs as one process? We could write our own, of course, and the > Twisted package looks like it would be fun to use. Or, is Ant a viable > solution to our problem? > > Your constructive comments would be appreciated > > Greg Lindstrom > Novasys Health > Little Rock, Arkansas > Take a look at fabric. It was designed for installation, but it might do what you want.
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