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Re:Bazel 1.0 by rienbdj on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:46AM (#21289190)
Make (to use your example) does not do any sandboxing to ensure that the declared dependency graph is actually correct. This is the big innovation in Bazel (and Co).
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Re:Bazel 1.0 by emelski on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:21AM (#21289310)
Electric Make has had sandboxing since 2002, no conversion from your familiar make-based builds to a new shiny build tool required, and it can make on-the-fly corrections to execution order if that sandboxing reveals that incomplete dependency specifications caused something to run in the wrong order (relative to a strictly serial build).

"Sandboxing" in a build tool cannot be claimed as Bazel's innovation.

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Re:Bazel 1.0 by adgasf on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:42AM (#21290875)
Can you link to the project?
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Re:Bazel 1.0 by emelski on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:12PM (#21347422)
Sorry for the belated response. Electric Make is part of CloudBees Accelerator: https://www.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-accelerator.
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Re:Bazel 1.0 by jburgess777 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @10:56AM (#21298797)
He was probably talking about a product from Electric Cloud:

https://electric-cloud.com/plugins/directory/p/emake/

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