Re: Default output-sync setting (was: Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch)

[Tim Murphy]

One doesn't have to suffer the problems and learn the option exists afterwards.

In the end I can understand why a new feature might not be default to start with - until a lot of people have used it and are sure that it works everywhere.

Cheers,

Tim

On 29 April 2013 20:21, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:33:10 +0100
> From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>

>
> Come now - the broken excuse is an excuse. There's plenty of crap free
> software out there and some poor bastard trying to build it who can't
> change the source because the people who own it think it should be make's
> problem.

Look, no one is claiming that this feature is useless.  I just spent
two days researching and implementing it on Windows, something I
wouldn't do if I thought it wasn't important to have.

What we are talking here is whether to have this turned on by default.
I hope you are not going to claim that adding -O to a Make command
line to get the new behavior is too hard.  By contrast, having to type
-Onone to have the _old_ behavior back might very well annoy a few.

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