Re: [jamboost] Development plan

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-18 10:09:14

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From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>

> Not sure. So far, 'project' has purely declarative semantics. It would
> prevent any project ids declares in big_lib's project-root.jam from
been
> accessible to use. Or should 'project' load Jamfile in the given
location?

Why not? That's cheap, especially if Jamfiles are mostly declarative ;-D

> I agree but I was not proposing anything different. Just if we have
several
> project-roots how should be call (in our discussions or docs)
everything
> under one project-root. "top-level project"? "module"?

Does this cover it?

"project root" - the directory where the Jamfile for the top of a
project lives.
"project collection" - a directory containing the project roots of
multiple projects