[Rake-devel] recursive task invocation

[Ittay Dror]

So the previous ping generated some feedback, but I'm still not sure if 
this is on the roadmap or not. Jim?

Ittay

Ittay Dror wrote:
> Is there no interest in the suggestion made below?
>
> Ittay Dror wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a Buildr build and after 20 recursive prerequisites 
>> Ruby's call stack is exhausted and I get a segmentation fault. The 
>> number of modules and dependencies is large, so I can't decrease the 
>> prerequisites.
>>
>> How about doing an iterative DFS search on the prerequisites to order 
>> them and then invoke them according to order?
>>
>> There are  a few other benefits, besides not needing recursion:
>> 1. it allows to find circular dependencies before starting the 
>> invocation
>> 2. it allows for rake to utilize threads to invoke the list of tasks 
>> (assuming actions don't conflict)
>>
>> Note that currently tasks can "cheat" and add prerequisites lazily 
>> when invoked by overriding invoke_prerequisites. This can be achieved 
>> with the above suggestion by letting them override the prerequisites 
>> accessor.
>>
>> Drawbacks:
>> This doesn't allow for a task's action to add prerequisites to 
>> sibling tasks during the invocation chain (unless an API is provided 
>> to allow changing the invocation list during invocation)
>>
>> What do you think? I don't mind implementing this, but obviously it 
>> is a big change.
>> Ittay
>>
>

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