From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-09-11T04:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Drake: Distributed Rake

On Sep 10, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Trans wrote:

> Is it worth potentially breaking Rakefiles to prevent this sort of
> thing (like drake -j2 or more does)? I'm not so sure. While one might
> consider this Rakefile "bad design" because it doesn't fit the
> original formal notion, it nonetheless does what one would expect it
> to do. I think I'd rather have that, than the potential for ambiguous
> behavior.


They aren't potentially broken, they are broken.  If it happens to  
work, you've just gotten lucky.

I've helped rework the Rubinius rakefiles twice and I can assure you  
it's perfectly possible to having broken rakefiles without -j.  We  
were able to use drake with only one change due to having working  
rakefiles beforehand.

Furthermore, this is a feature that is not enabled by default.  I  
don't see where this is an issue.