To be honest, I don't know why tcpbalance isn't used more often. It's probably a combination of factors.[6]
* I haven't done much to promote tcpbalance's existance. [sic]
[1] I didn't know about it, but I've only been using distcc for a few months.
* Building and installing the Erlang VM, and its accompanying s/w
packages (stuff like a complete CORBA development environment),
is too much of a hassle, too much disk space for the
installation (40-50MB), too much time, too steep a learning
curve, too verbose documentation (when I bothered to write any
documentation at all), ...
[2] I suspect this is the case, for most people.
* Not that many people need to solve this particular problem.
[3] Definitely the case for me - I'm using "distcc" in a completely heterogenous environment (so far) on 6 identical machines (6 SunFire V240's, and 6 dual Xeon Linux boxes). If it goes into production use and we decide to dip down into our rapidly-dwindling pool of Ultra 5+'s, then I'll pay more attention ;-)
[4] There is no #4
You're a sharp guy Scott (we had lunch at Anaheim Usenix once, in a galaxy far, far away ... ) - why not have a go at figuring out why "distcc" doesn't work with Sun's compilers next? ;-) Then you'd really be a hero :-)
- Greg
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