writing (Gnu)MAKE in Python

[Suchandra Thapa]

John Schmitt <jschmitt at vmlabs.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'd love to take the diversion of writing Make using Python.  The things
>that are keeping me from doing this are, in order:
>
>In a smaller way, I would like to have Bash, sed, and grep as Python
>programs rather than compiled C.

	I think the software carpentry project is funding a set
of tools to replace make/autoconf/misc. dev tools in python.  The
proposals that they've received and the winning proposals are on 
their web page (unfortunately I don't have the address but a 
search should turn it up).


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Suchandra S. Thapa 
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