make or similar in Python

[T. C. Mits]

Howdy:
    Funny, I'm searching for the exact same thing.

    My idea is to use XML as a repository for the dependencies and other
required configuration properties.  A Python script will query the db and
generate dynamic makefiles.   A pain is that this has to work on NT and Unix
and perhaps even by web based via Servelets.


Greg Wilson <gvwilson at nevex.com> wrote in message
news:378390DD.58CA6BD5 at nevex.com...
> 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)
>
>