Idea for next portupgrade

[Sergey Matveychuk]

Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I want to thanks the dev of portupgrade. It save lots of my time and
> work fine. 
> 
> But I just think about our new computer with the lot of core, a standard
> server have dual proc with quad-core that's mean 8 core availble. 
> 
> 
> In the next version of portupgrade, IMHO it's good idea to have option 
> to make portupgrade working with many proc. Because what I known many ports
> cannot by compile with «-j8» option. In that case when we make
> 
> 	portupgrade --all -b
> 
> we have just one compilation. It's enough when we have 1 or 2 procs. But
> now with 8 or more proc....
> 
> If portupgrade can calculate the depency and launch many ports build in
> same time for non-depending ports it's can be wonderful.
> 
> But it's just a idea..... Maybe it's already in the roadmap ...

I'm sure it's a good idea. I'd use it too. But I have a very little free 
time with my current employment. So I can't implement it. Sorry.

If somebody could, I would take patches with pleasure.

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