"Karthik Gurusamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: >> That sounds like a very confusing architecture, and smells very >> much like some kind of premature optimisation. What leads you to >> that design? It's very likely a better design can be suggested to >> meet your actual requirements. > > So effectively I'm writing a python script as a poor man's make file. > [...] > I'm not really worried about optimizations at this time; just want a > cleaner solution to my problem.
There is SCons, a much-improved build system written in Python, that may interest you. <URL:http://www.scons.org/> The build configurations are written in Python, so it seems to be quite similar to what you're currently working toward. -- \ "The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes." -- | `\ William Feather | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list