pydoit

So "doit" is a build tool written in Python, designed to be more general in scope than make. The documentation speaks of workflow. It looks like an attractive tool.

And speaking of attraction, it seems to me that there are natural "semantic attractors" when it comes to the many tools written for the same domain. What you'd really want to do is to boil things down to a semantic core and then map out how each tool expresses things in its own unique way. Factor out the commonality, as it were.

So the build tool domain would be an interesting domain to do that in, especially given its patent usefulness in building tools.