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I suspect your downvotes are coming because you haven't mentioned http://www.scons.org/. Letting you know in case you're not aware of it. (I would have emailed you out-of-band, but there's no contact info in your profile. Sorry for the noise, everyone else)

Scons uses Python more for configuration rather than the control flow. I'm sure most people think that's ok, but I find it limiting and a bit too derpy.

In fairness that's the core of the argument: a significant proportion of people that have had to maintain build tools over long periods believe they should only be configuration and not contain any control flow.

The problem with adding flow control is that establishing the dependencies without actually executing the whole process becomes next to impossible.

i suspect that the downvotes from people are because python is far too powerful as a build scripting language.

You mean waf?

Fabricate might be interesting to you if you haven't seen it already.

https://code.google.com/p/fabricate/