Re: [boost] [1.34.0] Boost.Build

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-11 10:16:30

Nicola Musatti wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Matt Doyle wrote:
>>>> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Thomas Witt
>>>> FWIW users that depend on v1 can always use 1.33.x
>>> Doesn't this seem rather Microsoft-ish? I'm thinking of .NET, the
>>> attitude was you wouldn't accept it when we offered it to you so now
>>> we're going to force it on you. And, if you really don't want .NET you
>>> can always use VC6.5. Do you see the parallels here?
>> There is one significant difference, Boost.Build is not a Boost library. 
>> It's a tool Boost uses to make the the distribution and building easier. 
>> I.e. BB is independent of the Boost releases.
> 
> If it is then it should have been developed separately, tested, released 
> and only then integrated into Boost, at the start of the first 
> subsequent release cycle. As it is Boost appears to be a gigantic unit 
> test for Boost.Build.

We did do that for BBv2, or I should say mostly Volodya has done that. 
BBv2 has had releases now for more than 3 years 
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=80982>. 
And has seen most of it's use outside Boost for those 3 years.

-- 
-- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything
-- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com
-- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com
-- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo