Comments on: Bruce Eckel announces build.py

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:10:35 +0000

There's also SCons.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:58:05 +0000

Given all the alternatives, I’m beginning to wonder why, aside from the exercise, Bruce Eckel is rolling his own…

By: Petar Forai

Petar Forai — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:16:00 +0000

While we’re at Python build systems:
Have a look at “waf”[1] – A portable and efficient build system for building (heterogeneous) projects written in different languages (ie C++ w/ Python w/Ocaml). Also makes extensive use of decorators. Quite mature and very well worth the effort of looking into it.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/waf

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:59 +0000

Fabric looks good for managing deployment, but I don’t quite get why some of the examples use Maven2, which has its own ways doing pretty much everything the examples do.

By: number5

number5 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:38 +0000

There is also a tool called Fabric[1], more focus on deployment but you can use it as build tool anyway

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/fab/

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:40:05 +0000

Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many alternatives. My googling a couple weeks ago only really turned up buildutils and Vellum. Thanks for the pointers. I’m already trying to think up a new Python project to try these out on now…

By: Michael Greene

Michael Greene — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:37:04 +0000

If you’re looking at Vellum and zc.buildout, you’ll probably also want to look at Paver and pip. This is an area of a lot of activity lately–hopefully the common will gel around a couple of the better tools.

By: James Bennett

James Bennett — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:09:45 +0000

For completeness, you probably also want to look at zc.buildout, which aims to do more than just Python, but which has lots of useful Python-deployment recipes already.