This comment is a plug. I've tried many alternative to make over the years, and eventually, doit (pydoit.org/) was the one I sticked with. It's declarative ye

This comment is a plug. I've tried many alternative to make over the years, and eventually, doit (pydoit.org/) was the one I sticked with. It's declarative yet dynamic, it's simple yet powerful, you get to use shell command or a custom function, and it deals with all the things you need like deps and targets, creating a dag, caching, etc. It's the sweat spot for me.