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		klibertp on March 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I develop Django projects We use Fabric instead of Makefiles - Fabric is much more powerful and fabfiles are written in Python.

__alexs on March 26, 2013 [–]

Make commands can also be written in Python...

I'm not saying using Fabric is a bad idea, just that about all it shares with Make is being a vaguely useful place to namespace a bunch of commands.

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