[Slackbuilds-users] Proposal of SBU marker in README's

[JK Wood]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org>wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:52:58 -0600
> Vincent Batts <vbatts at hashbangbash.com> wrote:
>
> > In the same fashion of the Linux-From-Scratch guide, what are
> > everyone's idea on having a baseline package build time marked as the
> > Single Build Unit (SBU). some package of consensus, and included in
> > the README's could have in SBU's the relative build time of their
> > SlackBuild. for example if libsndfile takes 4 minutes to build on
> > your machine, that would be 1 SBU for you. therefore qt4 would be 45
> > SBU's and ipcalc would be < 1 SBU
> >
> > this is an idea that would provide more foresight to the prospective
> > builders of any given SBo.
>
>
> Hrm, I don't know.
>
> On one hand, it would certainly be useful information to have, but at
> the same time, it's error prone -- either the data is very subjective
> (i.e. "that took forever") or it requires the submitter to time every
> build they run and compare it against some "standard" build.
>
> Besides, something like this would take all the fun out of comparing
> build times -- there would be this boring "<1SBU" or "10SBU" or
> "400SBU" instead of "faster than a fifteen year old boy's first time
> with Eliza Dushku" or "this thing takes a metric assload of time to
> build"
>
> -RW
>
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I think that the metric buttload is a very useful unit of time when
expressing things like these.

--JK
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