[Fab-user] Makefile like tagets ant rules

[Mantas]

Hi,

tried to search in docs and find out if it is possible with fabfile.py
to do some thing similar to Makefile targets/rules.

In Makefile I can do:

    bin/buildout: buildout.cfg
        python bootstrap.py

These lines checks if ``bin/buildout`` is older than ``buildout.cfg`` or
``bin/buildout`` doesn't exists at all, and then runs ``python
bootstrap.py`` which generates ``bin/buildout``.

Next time, if ``bin/buildout`` exists and is newer than ``buildout.cfg``
nothing will be done.

In fabfile.py I imagine this could be implemented like this:

    from fabric.api import local, make

    def buildout(target, sources):
        local('python %s' % sources[0])

    def main():
        make('all', {
            'all': (None, ['bin/buildout']),
            'bin/buildout': (buildout, ['buildout.cfg'])
        })


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