From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T07:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Drake: Distributed Rake

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM, . <quixoticsycophant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do we want
>
>    task :a => :x
>    task :a => :y
>    task :a => :z
>
> to be equivalent to
>
>    task :a => :z
>    task :a => :x
>    task :a => :y
>
> Yes or no?  If a programmer wants them to mean different things, how
> shall we accommodate him?

Yes! If you want it differently, you write in the ordering explicitly

task :a => :z
task :z => :y
task :y => :x

You have no reason to expect one operation to come before another if
there is not an explicit dependency chain between them

martin