can python run a free 'make' utility/module on Windows?

[Chris Liechti]

gk at proliberty.com (greg keraunen) wrote in 
news:ac6e8119.0208231059.6dcf6741 at posting.google.com:
> Does anyone know of a free/open-source make utility on Windows that
> could be accessed and distributed with Python?
> 
> The other thing I was hoping to find is rsync on Windows. Is that
> possible?

both can be found in the cygwin package. http://cygwin.com/
maybe mingw contains a make that doesn't need the cygwin dll
 
> I know Python can meet my needs in the area of Regular Expressions, XML
> DOM, and GUI, etc. but make is the the one thing I haven't found yet.

if you want to have a build tool written in python http://www.scons.org/ 
could be an alternative.

chris
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