For a very different approach, check out make-booster: https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-booster https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-booster Make-bo

For a very different approach, check out make-booster: https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-booster https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-booster Make-booster provides utility routines intended to greatly simplify data processing (particularly a data pipeline) using GNU make. It includes some mechanisms specifically to help Python, as well as general-purpose mechanisms that can be useful in any system. In particular, it helps reliably reproduce results, and it automatically determines what needs to run and runs only that (producing a significant speedup in most cases). Released as open source software.