GUI-based build system

[Chris Tavares]

"Hung Jung Lu" <hungjunglu at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know whether there is any generic GUI-based build system
> around? (Python-based would be great. Also, for now I am only looking
> for Windows OS.) By "build system" I mean something similar the
> "make/makefile" system, but somewhat more
> generic/powerful/flexible/higher-level/etc, so that if you have a
> sequence (maybe even some simple conditional branches and loops) of
> system tasks to perform, you can more easily visualize the steps, and
> perhaps resume from some middle point. If it has e-mail capability to
> send out final status, even better. :) If it can work both
> interactively and a an fire-and-forget stand-alone, even better. :)
>
> (I don't mind writing simple wrappers to each individual tasks to
> produce standardized responses for the build system.)
>
> My guess is that there are many utilities like that out there already.
> Another guess is that some of them use XML for task specification. One
> more guess is that some of them are free. But, I could be wrong. :)
>
> thanks,
>
> Hung Jung

In the windows world, here are a couple of commercial tools that do stuff
like this:

Visual Build Pro: http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/
FinalBuilder: http://www.atozedsoftware.com/finalbuilder/index.html

-Chris