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The most comprehensive make alternative in python I've seen is Scons (https://scons.org/) It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into. Blurb from the website: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Https://scons.org/ It has cache facility to speed up re-builds. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
SCons never got popular enough to escape the niches it grew up in. Source: 10 months ago
I literally do almost this exact thing with the game im working on. Situation is: im the programmer, working with an artist who cant code (and im not going to make them edit json on an ipad lmao) so I have a google drive spreadsheet where they put metadata for the items they make. I have a script that uses rclone to copy this down as a csv, along with the image assets. Then I wrote a python extension for scons... Source: about 1 year ago
It's a build tool, like cmake. https://scons.org/ you have to install it. Source: about 1 year ago
We can also try xmake. https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake Xmake can be used to directly build source code (like with Make or Ninja), or it can generate project source files like CMake or Meson. It also has a built-in package management system to help users integrate C/C++ dependencies. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
I wrote this tool mainly for the purpose of building xmake's own source code better. https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake. Source: over 1 year ago
Did you consider skipping the parser part and base it of off another language? Like xmake: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/. Source: over 1 year ago
Xmake is a lightweight cross-platform build utility based on Lua. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Xmake as build backend + project generator + package manager. Source: over 1 year ago
GNU Make - GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.
CMake - CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
Bazel - Bazel is a tool that automates software builds and tests.
Ninja Build - Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
Meson - Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...
SBT - SBT is a build tool for Scala, like Ant or Maven but with hieroglyphics.