Re: [jamboost] Property utilities

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-03 09:12:05

David Abrahams wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
>
> > Now that compose-requirements is found to be the same as
>
> apply-requirements,
>
> > can we go with 'apply-requirements' only?
>
> I still don't think the name is right. The problem with "apply" is that
> traditionally it means there is an operator and an operand. In other
> words, we might apply a function to an argument or apply requirements to
> a target. However, both arguments are requirements lists AFAICT, so I
> think "refine" would be better.

Just committed property.jam. The rule is now named 'refine-properties' - to 
represent the fact that we'll use it both to refine build request and to 
refine inherited requirements. Hope this is the final name. 

- Volodya