That is a good article, but it doesn’t seem to address several of the concerns raised in my redo article. In particular, it looks like the final output is still in a nondeterministic order, it doesn’t print output from a given target incrementally while it runs, and you can’t query the log retroactively to look for clues in a very big run.

It’s a big advantage to not have to change tools, of course. Although redo happily interoperates with makefiles (which is how the buildroot patch works) so there’s no need to convert everything to get most of the advantages.