Why Jam?

From: kral123 (kral123_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-20 02:45:53

I'm still struggling with getting Jam to build what I need of boost, 
trying to figure out how it reports errors (it just ignores them?), 
trying to figure out what it actually did, what libs it created, why 
it didn't produce .lib files for the thread stuff, etc..  What I want 
to know is, why not GNU autotools?  It seems like autoconf+automake 
would be much better suited to this job.  The system tests that boost 
needs to make have already been implemented in it or with existing 
autoconf m4 files, it works with significantly less hassle across the 
platforms boost supports, it runs on and supports more platforms than 
Jam, and everyone is already familiar with it.