Make alternative like NAnt, rake, ... written in python?

[Paul Boddie]

Achim Domma wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a tool to automate build tasks like copying files,
> zipping them up, change config files .... NAnt works fine, because it's
> quite easy to extend in C#, but it would even easier to write tasks in
> Python.
>
> SCons is the only Python tool of this kind which I know. But SCons is
> much to complicated and not easy to extend. Rake looks very nice, but is
> written in Ruby. Is there something similar in Python?

The Waf build system might be something to consider:

http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bksys.html

The claim is that it's better architected and faster than SCons,
although I haven't investigated this myself.

Paul