build flow? SCons? AAP? process creation?

[Steve Christensen]

In article <1113420994.118316.245190 at g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, corey.coughlin at comcast.net wrote:
> Hey guys, here's a little question.  I'm looking for something like a
> build system, where I can set up a bunch of jobs with dependencies, and
> have them run in parallel.  Ideally, I'd like a system where jobs can
> be run in parallel, all the stdout and stderr for each job is kept in a
> database of some kind, jobs can be anything that can be run at a
> command line, and a failing job won't cause the whole run to fail.
> I've been looking into some of the standard stuff (GNU make) and some
> of the more pythonic stuff like SCons and AAP.  SCons seems to do
> parallel execution, which is nice, but I can't figure out from the docs
> if it's possible to keep stdout and stderr somewhere.  AAP seems to
> have a nice interface, but it doesn't do parallel.

Here's something from the SCons Wiki:
    http://www.scons.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BuildLog



-Steve

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