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When comparing Fabricate vs Buildout, the Slant community recommends Fabricate for most people. In the question“What are the best Python build tools?” Fabricate is ranked 2nd while Buildout is ranked 5th.
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Pros
Pro Can run tasks in parallel
Pro Avoids any step doing nothing
Detects input/output file changes and if input files didn't change, doesn't run the command again.
Pro Easy to script
Fabricate uses Python as a scripting language. Being a fully usable language and an easy one at that, makes Fabricate rather easy to script.
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Con Not maintained
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