Using Python to automate builds

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Hendrik van
Rooyen<hendrik at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 21:13:10 Kosta wrote:
>> I am a Python newbie, tasked with automating (researching) building
>> Windows drivers using the WDK build environment.  I've been looking
>> into Python for this (instead of writing a bunch of batch files).
>>
> Why do you not use make and a makefile - it was designed to
> do exactly this.

Because make is a pain on windows (lack of a proper shell) ?

cheers,

David