On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Fine <jf...@pytex.org> wrote: > I'm hoping to avoid reinventing a wheel (or other rolling device). I've got > a number of dependencies and, if possible, I want to order them so that each > item has its dependencies met before it is processed. > > I think I could get what I want by writing and running a suitable makefile, > but that seems to be such a kludge. > > Does anyone know of an easily available Python solution?
If you are looking for alternatives of Make or Ant, try pyKook. pyKook is a pure-Python tool similar to Make, Ant, or Rake. http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kook/pykook-users-guide.html http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kook/ example (Kookbook.py): CC = prop('CC', 'gcc') CFLAGS = prop('CFLAGS', '-g -O2') @recipe @ingreds('hello.o') def task_all(c): """compile all *.o""" # recipe description pass @recipe @product("*.o") @ingreds("$(1).c", if_exists("$(1).h")) def file_o(c): """compile '*.c' and '*.h' into '*.o'""" # recipe description system(c%"$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $(ingred)") example of command-line: ~/tmp> kk all ### ** hello.o (recipe=file_o) $ gcc -g -O2 -c hello.c ### * all (recipe=task_all) -- regards, makoto kuwata -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
