buildout VS Invoke

Compare buildout vs Invoke and see what are their differences.

buildout

Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python (by buildout)

Invoke

Pythonic task management & command execution. (by pyinvoke)
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buildout Invoke
1 6
569 4,247
0.2% 1.2%
0.0 4.1
3 months ago 24 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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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.

Invoke

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.

What are some alternatives?

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

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.

doit - task management & automation tool

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

Nox - Flexible test automation for Python

SCons

ninja - a small build system with a focus on speed

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

meson - The Meson Build System

tox-battery - Experiments with Tox plugin system