On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, . <quixoticsycophant / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (and I should hope we all agree), then there is nothing which can save
> us.  We are forced to write our Rakefiles correctly.  No backwards
> compatibility mode is possible for threads>1.

A --file-order-implies-dependency flag might get us there in a lot of
cases, though of course there's no general solution. Of more value
would be a lint tool that helps convert a rakefile into parallelisable
form.

martin