howto check programs and C libraries

[Ravi Sahni]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM, David Palao <dpalao.python at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm in charge of preparing a computer room for the practices of
> "introduction to programming".
> One of the tasks is checking that from all the computers in the room
> one can execute some programs and link (and compile) against some
> libraries.
> My first idea was using Autotools (or cmake), but as I'm a big fan of
> python, I was thinking how to do that with python, and I don't have a
> clear solution yet.
> I know that distutils includes the distutils.command.config module,
> and I think it could do the job (when properly subclassed).
> Do you have a better idea?

I have ruby on rails friends who speak of capistrano and puppet.
google puppet python gives me :
http://stackful-dev.com/cuisine-the-lightweight-chefpuppet-alternative

If you find it good I shall be interested to know.


-- 
Ravi