Re: Parallel make with distributed systems

2015-05-03 Thread SF Markus Elfring
> The question is, why is it the case that these challenges, tasks, work, > and constraints need to be handled within make itself, > rather than farmed out to a separate process via the SHELL capability? Does it matter to get the accounting for the processor cores right? > Offhand I can't see an

Re: Parallel make with distributed systems

2015-05-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 09:31 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > I have nothing against doing more than that in theory, but before I'd > > agree to add something complex I'd need to understand where the existing > > method fails, and the new method would provide significant benefits. > > I guess th

Re: Parallel make with distributed systems

2015-05-03 Thread SF Markus Elfring
> I have nothing against doing more than that in theory, but before I'd > agree to add something complex I'd need to understand where the existing > method fails, and the new method would provide significant benefits. I guess that there are some software development challenges around the specifica