On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Mark Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> To be honest, I prefer the drake semantics as they are closer to make's. > > Second that. The option to specify parallel builds for any task is > handy because the task may not derive from multitask, e.g. it could be > a file task to build a c library from multiple source files that you > want to build in parallel. > > Personally I've used my own patch to rake to do this, that was before > drake, but I still use it due to drake having an extra dependency. > > https://github.com/watsonmw/rakecpp/blob/master/minusj/minusj.rb
I agree. I would really love to see a 'make -j' equivalent in Rake. -- Phusion | Ruby & Rails deployment, scaling and tuning solutions Web: http://www.phusion.nl/ E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of commerce no: 08173483 (The Netherlands) _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
