[Fab-user] Looking for ant replacement

[Jarek Zgoda]

Currently I'm using ant, mostly for deployment purposes (build release
tarballs, copy to remote machines, unpack, restart daemons). My
projects are in Python (Django) and Java and I found writing
buildfiles for ant rather tedious, but remote deployment of non-python
apps is far easier with ant than with (say) Paver. As I am mostly
Python developer, I'm looking for replacement. I already tried Paver,
but it's not well suited for deploying war files or the like.

Is Fabric right tool to replace ant in my toolbox?

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Jarek Zgoda
http://zgodowie.org/