Re: [boost] jam build system

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-23 09:52:08

At 01:32 PM 7/22/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >> The docs lack any "end user" documentation - I'm not talking about 
boost
 >> users writing jamfiles here, just step by step instructions for
 >particular
 >> compilers - I do appreciate though that this is a fair amount of work.
 >
 >Can you give me some idea what you mean by "step by step instructions for
 >particular compilers"? Users shouldn't have to know much of anything 
about
 >particular compilers to use the system. That's the goal, at least.

I know what John means, and that's the part of the documentation I'm 
committed to help with.  But I didn't want to start until the build stuff 
was merged into the main trunk.  Now that that's been done, I will try to 
start work on it toward the end of this week.

--Beman