Re: [jamboost] Boost Release Candidate Branch

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-09 15:02:35

On 2002-05-09 at 02:24 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:

>Boost has now been branched for the 1.28.0 release:
>
>4. We should be updating the Boost.Build documentation to head off support
>questions in 1.28.0. When adding new files I suggest we check them in
>initially on the main trunk. That should prevent some of the problems we
>have had when trying to merge the Perfoce jam sources with ours (jam_src
>was initially checked in on a branch).

TODOs for the main build docs...

* It's no longer needed to specify the BOOST_ROOT, and they should invoke
bjam instead of jam.

* When building your own Boost.Jam... we should put a note about it building
both jam and bjam, and to "install" both (or a link from one to the other).

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