From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T04:32:13+09:00
Subject: Re: parallel tasks with rake ?

On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:15 PM, quixoticsycophant@yahoo.com wrote:

> Rake is a very nice tool, but it needs a -j equivalent in order to be
> considered as an alternative to make (at least in my case).  I put it
> out to enterprising rubyists to give rake genuine parallel task
> execution.

I bet the pieces of this could be written up as a fun Ruby Quiz or  
two.  Determining what can be done in parallel from the dependancy  
graph in particular sounds like a great quiz topic.  Then you could  
Rakify the solutions and submit a patch.  Just a thought...

James Edward Gray II