Thanks Volker, Aron, and Ondrej. I think I understand most of Volker's questions about HashDist a lot better now.
One thing I wanted to clarify is that HashDist uses the abstract idea of functional package management from Nix, but HashDist is not built on the Nix package manager or a rewrite/refactorization of it. In particular, the build recipes for packages are highly customizable and flexible. We erred on the side of pragmatism in several areas of the design due to our experience building complex stacks on HPC platforms. Another point I wanted to underscore is that some of the functionality like parallel builds across packages and integrated, efficient development workflows have been part of the design since the early stages of HashDist development. There's just a limit to how fast we can implement features because we all have primary research objectives in other areas. -Chris On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Monday, June 16, 2014 8:40:34 PM UTC+1, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > >> > >> Volker, my understanding is that this would be useful for developing a > >> package, to be able to quickly > >> run a build, without committing. But for the end user, you always want > >> to build from some commit. > > > > > > Yes, I agree. But our primary aim here is reduce development turnaround > > time. > > Definitely. I just wanted to clarify this. I've wanted this feature > for a long time too, when developing. > > Ondrej > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
