The distutils package provides support
for building and installing additional
modules into a Python installation.
The new modules may be either
100%-pure Python, or may be extension
modules written in C, or may be
collections of Python packages which
include modules coded in both Python
and C.
Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It derives from the concepts of other build tools such as Scons, Autotools, CMake or Ant.
Fabric 2.x — The remote execution and deployment library that utilizes Invoke.
Patchwork — The "common deployment/sysadmin operations, built on Fabric."
Invoke is a Python (2.6+ and 3.3+) task execution tool & library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful & clean feature set.
Below are a few descriptive statements from Invoke's website:
Invoke is a Python (2.6+ and 3.3+) task execution tool & library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful & clean feature set.
Like Ruby’s Rake tool and Invoke’s own predecessor Fabric 1.x, it provides a clean, high level API for running shell commands and defining/organizing task functions from a tasks.py file.
