From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T13:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Drake: Distributed Rake

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, . <quixoticsycophant@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 7:32 pm, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A --file-order-implies-dependency flag might get us there in a lot of
>> cases, though of course there's no general solution. Of more value
>> would be a lint tool that helps convert a rakefile into parallelisable
>> form.
>
> But I thought we just agreed those two forms should be the same?  Now
> you are proposing a flag which will make them different.

They *should* be the same, but if we're discussing legacy rakefiles
where people have implicitly relied on their being different...

I agree that there's really no 'right' thing to do, though - either
you've specified your depgraph properly or you haven't.

martin