Are there any good build frameworks written in Python?

Question

I switched from NAnt to using Python to write build automation scripts. I am curious if whether any build frameworks worth using that are similar to Make, Ant, and NAnt, but, instead, are Python-based. For example, Ruby has Rake. What about Python?

Answer 1

Try SCons

Or are you looking for something just to build python projects?

Answer 2

The following look good, but I haven't used them (yet):

• Paver
• waf
• doIt

Paver looks especially promising.

Answer 3

My Rapid Throughts: SCons is quite mature and oriented also to other languages (es C++) Waf is very simlar to ant/maven, so you will prefer it if you are used to ant/maven

Paver is very pythonic oriented, and seems a good option if you do not know how to start.

Answer 4

The Python wiki maintains a page on python build and deployment tools.

Answer 5

There is also Fabric but it's specially geared towards deployment rather than generic building.