From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T17:52:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Drake: Distributed Rake

My first reaction was, "So hows is this different than Rake again? Rake has 
multitask..."

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 01:58:40 quixoticsycophant@gmail.com wrote:
> === MultiTask
> 
> The use of +multitask+ is deprecated.  Tasks which may properly be run
> in parallel will be run in parallel; those which cannot, will not.  It
> is not the user's job to decide.
> 
> Drake's +multitask+ is an alias of +task+.

Aha.

So what do you do with things which aren't thread-save? Or "j-safe"?

And how is this different than running Rake with 'task' set to an alias 
of 'multitask'?