Paver, metamake, best tool for the job?

[ssteiner]

Hi, again!

I've been using paver for a couple of days only and, with some new
modules (Mercurial and epydoc support, for example), I could see it
becoming a useful part of my workflow on Python projects.

In the course of poking around, I also found metamake,
http://code.google.com/p/metamake/ since mjpizz owns metamake and is a
committer on paver.

I'm wondering whether anyone has had experience with both and would
be interested in sharing some experience.

Thanks,

S

[Kevin Dangoor]

I don't know if metamake is being actively developed any more. (Not that Paver is very active right now, but it had a lot more work in it.)

Basically, Matt (mjpizz) wanted a tool that was very simple and didn't have all of the Python-specific goodies in it. Between 0.8 and 1.0, I made Paver fit that design goal as well (paver.tasks is basically usable by itself.) and all of the Python-specific machinery is now in paver.setuputils exclusively.

Kevin

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