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Distributed Compilation
BagOBones writes "Tired of waiting for your source to compile? Dreaming of having your own cluster and having something useful to do with it? Well Trolltech might have the answer. Trolltech Teambuilder lets you turn your network into a clustered C/C++ compiler."
But isn't the point of having subscriptions to avoid advertisements?
That said, I've certainly worked on products that needed at least 3 hours to build an entire tree. These builds were done regularly around 3 in the morning so that the daily drop was available to QA first thing in the morning. It wasn't really necessary to farm out the compilation across machines because it wasn't a big deal to maximize speed.
As for developers' machines, it wasn't like every change was accompanied by a full build. You recompile the files that changed and link the object files together. Any smart build system should be able to handle this type of logic. Such a local build would take about 2 or 3 minutes (if that. This time could be made even shorter by using dlls instead of a single binary). I guess this Trolltech system could reduce this wait even further, but I'm not sure I see the point.
When else are you going to refill your coffee?
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What does this package have that makes it any better than dmake(distributed make)? Convincing anyone that uses linux to go with a $750 product over an open source one seems silly, if they were going to do that they wouldn't be using linux in the first place.
I doubt dropping the price would make any sense. It doesn't seem likely that halving the price would double the volume: $775 is still not something a hobbiest would spend, and most companies who feel they need something like Qt won't be affected by saving $775 anyway.