Re: [jamboost] Re: Projects and attributes

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-04 02:02:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
>>On Wednesday 29 December 2004 23:02, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>>The introduction of a special named parameter interface for declaring
>>>projects and the introduction of an "attribute" concept seem to me to be
>>>entirely gratuitous, since the things one has to declare for a project
>>>have so much in common with the "common syntax" for declaring main targets
>>>
>>> Projects Main targets
>>> ======== ============
>>> project id (name) name
>>> requirements requirements
>>> source location
>>> build directory
>>> default-build default-build
>>> usage requirements
>>>
>>
>>What do you think about allowing named parameters for targets? 
> 
> 
> I'm trying to make the system easier to explain and I'm not convinced
> this complication is neccessary.
> 
> 

As a user I always found the named parameters confusing and more 
difficult to use. I actually never understood why the project rule uses 
named parameters and main targets do not.