[Scons-dev] SCons for distributed builds?

2018-04-05 Thread Akins, Christopher (GE Aviation, Non-GE, US)
Hey all, I work for GE Aviation, engine controls group, tools subgroup. Our application choreographs a lot of steps, from checking out a version of the controller software, to generating reports on its architecture, to simulating the controller handling a simulated engine, to churning out thous

[Scons-dev] SCons for distributed builds?

2018-04-05 Thread Akins, Christopher (GE Aviation, Non-GE, US)
Hey all, I work for GE Aviation, engine controls group, tools subgroup. Our application choreographs a lot of steps, from checking out a version of the controller software, to generating reports on its architecture, to simulating the controller handling a simulated engine, to churning out thous

Re: [Scons-dev] SCons for distributed builds?

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Deegan
Chris, While it does sound like an interesting application, it may be there already exist better tools for this. Are you using Grid Engine or LSF? Or Celery. Those would be the first tools I'd reach for if I'm understanding what you're asking for properly. In general we discuss use models etc in

Re: [Scons-dev] SCons for distributed builds?

2018-04-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 16:18 +, Akins, Christopher (GE Aviation, Non-GE, US) wrote: > […] > I'm trying to modernize the process, and SCons has come favorably to my > attention. Due to the lengthy and memory-intensive simulations, though, it > would be useful if we could use the same build syste