Hi, I knew close to nothing about python but chose waf for the build environment of a project. Depending on how comfortable you are with learning prog. languages, this is not really difficult. And there are tons of examples to get inspired. I would recommend waf as the project I set up with it is building nicely. Ardour3 switched to waf by the way. Jack2 uses waf as well (was a great source of inspiration for my introduction to waf). J.