buildout VS SCons

Compare buildout vs SCons and see what are their differences.

buildout

Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python (by buildout)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
buildout SCons
1 -
569 -
0.2% -
0.0 -
3 months ago almost 8 years ago
Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

buildout

Posts with mentions or reviews of buildout. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Advice for running adhoc Python scripts in Lambda
    1 project | /r/aws | 17 Sep 2021
    On Python package caching, (Buildout)[http://www.buildout.org/] will install Python packages in a cache directory. For example, `mypackage-1.0.0`, `mypackage-1.10`, `mypackage-2.0dev` and then it outputs wrapper scripts that append just the selected packages to sys.path.

SCons

Posts with mentions or reviews of SCons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SCons yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing buildout and SCons you can also consider the following projects:

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.

meson - The Meson Build System

Invoke - Pythonic task management & command execution.

ninja - a small build system with a focus on speed

PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:

BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

tox-battery - Experiments with Tox plugin system