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Reminds me of `just`. Which I love.
https://github.com/casey/just
The fundamental feature of make is building a graph of dependencies and building only the files that need building.
I say this as somebody that built their own python replacement for make long ago - during the building of which I learned what make was actually for, and how to use make, and thus abandoned my own project.
[1]: https://github.com/llimllib/pub
The most comprehensive make alternative in python I've seen is Scons (https://scons.org/)
It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into.
Blurb from the website:
SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.
old package `argh` and now `yaargh`[1] also translates functions into CLI commands.
Makefile keeps dependency graph. I had a 100-entry 300-line Makefile, with graphviz drawing charts of it, and kept a huge, year-long project on my own, organized and running all partial updates smoothly.
[1] https://github.com/ekimekim/yaargh
An alternative to Scons could be Doit (<https://pydoit.org/>), which if I remember correctly was built as a faster alternative to Scons. See also reasons of some users to prefer the later to other mentioned here: <https://pydoit.org/stories.html>.
On Dvorak keyboard it is in a very convenient place. Anyway, one can assign any letter. Not everyone uses virtualenv -- this is very frequent in Django, but I didn't see it elsewhere since I stopped working with it in 2016. Data science that I saw, revolves around Jupyter and Docker.
Anyway, my point is that your package offers some complexity like existing ones at similar cost. (Actually, I also contemplated making my own plugins system for `argh`, but just wrote a single package with my own decorator: https://github.com/culebron/erde/ )