On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Sara Marcondes wrote:

> I'm not sure that I understand the blog post. In what way are make and
> Airflow alike... at all? Airflow manages dependencies in the sense that
> it can build directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks that depend on each
> other in an execution order and output sense, but that isn't the same as
> managing build or output dependencies, which I understand to be make's
> bread and butter. Airflow *is* a task scheduler. That isn't an
> "additional feature" over the core software. Everything else around it
> is about managing and running those tasks in potentially highly
> available environments, and is deeply configurable for use with remote
> executors and other advanced use cases.
>
> It would be absurd to try to use it as a make replacement, unless I'm missing 
> something huge about what make is capable of and used for.

You've just given me an evil idea - re-implement `make` in systemd.

-- 
Tim Connors
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