Python or Ant

gslindstrom at gmail.com gslindstrom at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 13:58:47 EST 2010


My company is looking at creating a tool to allow us to define and manage a  
process for each job we run (a typical job may be look on a customers ftp  
site for a file, download it, decrypt it and load it into our database). We  
would like something which would allow us to glue together various existing  
processes we currently use into a single unit with multiple steps. Along  
the way, this new routine would need to log its progress and be able to  
report and even handle errors. A coworker has suggested we look at Ant  
("Another Neat Tool") and, though it looks promising, I have reservations.  
If I recall correctly, it was intended as a replacement for "Make" and I  
worry that we may be trying to force Ant to be something it is not. Also,  
most of our code base is in Python and I'd really like to stay that way, of  
possible.

Are there any systems out there that will allow me to run multiple programs  
as one process? We could write our own, of course, and the Twisted package  
looks like it would be fun to use. Or, is Ant a viable solution to our  
problem?

Your constructive comments would be appreciated

Greg Lindstrom
Novasys Health
Little Rock, Arkansas
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