Re: Improvements to build system etc. for edk2-platforms devel-MinnowBoard3?

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Rebecca:
  Yes. It is good to enable multiple thread and update ReadMe.MD. On .cmd/.bat vs python, .cmd/.bat doesn't require to install Python in windows OS. edksetup.bat is just a case. 

Thanks
Liming
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rebecca Cran [mailto:rebecca@bluestop.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:48 PM
>To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Cc: Lu, ShifeiX A <shifeix.a.lu@intel.com>; Zimmer, Vincent
><vincent.zimmer@intel.com>; Wei, David <david.wei@intel.com>; Andrew
>Fish <afish@apple.com>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
>Subject: Re: [edk2] Improvements to build system etc. for edk2-platforms
>devel-MinnowBoard3?
>
>On 2/21/2017 9:50 PM, Gao, Liming wrote:
>
>>    Could you introduce what change will be done for build improvement? I
>am also interested in this topic.
>
>The first change I'd make is to set 'buildthreads' in BuildBIOS to
>%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% - that by itself reduces the build time from
>around 7 minutes to 2.5 on my system. I also have some changes to the
>ReadMe.MD file to convert it to be a MD file instead of plain text,
>which massively increases readability on GitHub.  I've also been
>wondering about allowing more parameters to be passed through to 'build'
>such as reducing the verbosity to make compiler warnings more apparent.
>Finally, and this is likely more controversial - I've been wondering if
>the build scripts like BuildBIOS should be in python instead of Windows
>.cmd/.bat since python is already used elsewhere and is more flexible.
>
>--
>Rebecca