make or similar in Python

[Paul Duffin]

Greg Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks.  Has anyone ever written a dependency management/update tool
> (like 'make') in Python?
> I'm not looking for something that reads makefiles, and happens to be
> written in Python; I'm looking
> for a Python module that users import, then provide data to, in order to
> manage dependencies.  (The
> answer I got from the Perl crowd was 'cool idea, but no'; I'm hoping
> I'll have more luck here.)
> Thanks,
> Greg (who'd really, really like to override some of the things that
> GNU make does)

If you just want a cross platform one then take a look at "bras"

	http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/%7Ekir/brashome/

which is a pure Tcl solution.

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