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    <p>As a long time Python programmer, I wonder, if a central aspect of Python culture eluded me a long time: What do we do instead of Makefiles?</p> <p>Most ruby-projects I've seen (not just rails) use <em>Rake</em>, shortly after <em>node.js</em> became popular, there was <em>cake</em>. In many other (not only compliled languages) there are classic <em>Make</em> files.</p> <p>But in Python, noone seems to need such infrastructure. I randomly picked Python projects on GitHub, and they had no automation, besides the installtion, provided by <code>setup.py</code>.</p> <p><strong>What's the reason behind this?</strong></p> <p>Is there nothing to automate? Do most programmers prefer to run stylechecks, tests, etc. manually?</p> <p>Some examples:</p> <ul> <li><code>dependecies</code> sets up a virtualenv and installs the dependencies</li> <li><code>check</code> calls the <code>pep8</code> and <code>pylint</code> commandlinetools.</li> <li>the <code>test</code> task depends on <code>dependencies</code> enables the virtualenv, starts selenium-server for the integration tests, and calls <code>nosetest</code></li> <li>the <code>coffeescript</code> task compiles all coffeescripts to minified javascript</li> <li>the <code>runserver</code> task depends on <code>dependencies</code> and <code>coffeescript</code></li> <li>the <code>deploy</code> task depends on <code>check</code> and <code>test</code> and deploys the project.</li> <li>the <code>docs</code> task calls sphinx with the appropiate arguments</li> </ul> <p>Some of them are just one or two-liners, but imho, they add up. Due to the Makefile, i don't have to remember them.</p> <p>To clarify: I'm not looking for a Python equivalent for Rake. I'm glad with paver. I'm looking for the reasons.</p>
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    2. COrunning the tests/checkers, creating debian packages (no setup.py-plugin i found worked for me right now), in web projects running the testserver, deployment, minifying css and js... i have no projects where there isnt at least one or two tasks that deserve automation
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    3. CO@kappla: You would **never** use `setup.py` for running tests, running a test server, minifying css and js. None of that is even related to what `setup.py` does. This is very confusing. Can you **update** the question to list things you need to "automate"? Can you read the distutils documentation to see what `setup.py` is **supposed** to do, and revise your question?
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