[distcc] windows and distcc

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Do not use distcc..

it is fast (save 50% ~60%) but  very very unstable....

make -j option  is not supported exact multi process.

end in waste of money

my company went bankrupt because "distcc"

:(

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nadim" <nadim at khemir.net>
To: <distcc at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [distcc] windows and distcc


> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 21:34, Daniel Kegel wrote:
>> Zahari Doychev wrote:
>> >    Hi all,
>> >    I am new to distcc and I am not sure that it is the thing that's right
>> > for me.
>> >    I have windows box and several linux boxes. I want to write and edit
>> > all my code on windows machine and then compile it for one of the linux
>> > boxes.
>> >    All my programs are targeted to linux. I will appreciate any advise.
>>
>> You'd be happier developing on a Linux box, I think,
>> because running your builds on Windows will be
>> ungodly slow even with distcc.
> Nothing is less true. I use both OSes and a Win box compiles almost as fast 
> and I've seen cases where it goes faster on a windows box.
> 
> I still prefere linux for completeness but I must say windows still beats 
> Linux when it come to friendliness of installation etc..
> 
> IMO, if you do lots of development, like it's your life to compile stuff, it 
> is worth going to linux, otherwise stay confortable.
> 
>> As a middle ground, you can ssh to the Linux box
>> from your Windows box.  That way you don't need
>> to deal with multiple monitors or keyboards.
>> Many people use "putty" for this, or you can
>> use the xterm and ssh that come with cygwin.
> That's what I do at work (I use linux directly at home) I works perfectly, 
> putty is nice except you can't scroll up in the terminal one line at the time 
> (you'll learn to hate that). Running in cygwin will give you the ability to 
> "run" your linux graphical apps on your windows box. cygwin _IS_ slow, I 
> timed it to 4 times slower when copying files from boxes. We did lots of 
> development in cywin then and we decided to go for a linux/windows solution 
> to make thing better and they did get better.
> 
>> You *can* share files between Linux and Windows,
>> but unless your Windows editor can save files
>> in Unix text format, it's more trouble than it's worth.
> Works also well, any decent editor will do that.
> 
> I've been running that setup  for more than 5 years and it is completely OK 
> once you have all the pieces in place.
> 
> Cheers, Nadim.
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