Passing the baton for distcc
The time's come for me to pass over the baton of distcc to a new maintainer, Fergus Henderson.
Fergus, along with his Google colleagues Nils Klarlund and Craig
Silverstein, have been working for some time on a large new extension,
distcc-pump. distcc up to the last release I made always did
preprocessing on the client machine, then sent the preprocessed source to
a server for compilation. This keeps things pretty simple and works well
across a wide domain but does eventually reach a scalability limit. With
distcc-pump more of the work can be distributed. It looks
like there will also be support for gcc precompiled headers coming in
soon, in collaboration with Sascha Demetrio. A release candidate for 3.0
is now up on the new distcc site, and
they're churning through the several outstanding patches.
I'm very touched by his words about the project. Thanks, Fergus.
posted Thu 19 Jun 2008 in /projects/distcc | link
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