On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:

On 02.10.2013 21:46, Michael Price wrote:

pinging this again. What is the "correct" version of Boost.Build to use for non-Boost projects?

It does not matter much. If you're building Boost, using the version bundled with the same version of Boost
is safest. Otherwise, nightly build shall work. Except, it seems the nightly build has timestamp somewhere
in May, and I don't get any notification about failed cron jobs. I'll investigate where things broke, tomorrow.

Maybe, we should gradually move Boost.Build things outside of Boost website, which has some inconvenient
update mechanisms.

HTH,

Thanks for the information. I'm hesitant to use nightly builds for this, but when I grab the Milestone 12 tarball (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m12.tar.bz2) from the website, it does not have a bootstrap.sh or bootstrap.bat file in the top-level directory (as the instructions at http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html describe).

Am I doing something wrong, or should I really be using the nightly build? If I should be using the nightly, what sort of testing process do those builds go through before being posted to the website?