Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:06:51PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> > Leo Famulari writes:
> > > My opinion is that 3 or 4 GB is not a very small amount of RAM for a
> > > personal computer.
> > >
> > > I think that allowing users with "only" 4 GB RAM to build our ledger
> > > package is worth it taking twice as long for the rest of us.
> > >
> > > Or, users with ≤ 4 GB RAM could make a private variant of ledger that
> > > disables parallel building. We sometimes suggest that users with
> > > esoteric requirements or restrictions do something like this, but I
> > > don't think this is one of those cases.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > I guess I'm of a different view... it was only very recently that I
> > upgraded to a machine that had > 4GB ram.  And not too long ago I had a
> > machine with 2GB of ram for a long time.
> 
> Don't we agree? I think we should not parellelize the tests, since 4 GB
> RAM is too high to be a minimum requirement.

I mean the entire build, not just the tests.