Re: [boost] Re: Why Jam?

From: Timothy M. Shead (tshead_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-22 17:30:37

David Abrahams wrote:

> The tone of recent posts complaining about the build system has become
> needlessly aggressive and unproductive. Once again, the build system is in
> transition, and nobody's particularly happy about the status quo. It doesn't
> install as smoothly as we'd like. The documentation needs some work. It
> doesn't solve deployment problems (yet) that some would like to see
> addressed. The Boost.Build team is working on some of the issues for V2;
> that's our contribution. Pointing out that the situation isn't ideal (I am
> taking the most charitable view of this post, her) isn't helpful, because
> everyone knows that.
> 
> Please either make a constructive contribution yourself or back off about
> Boost.Build.

Hellooooo ... person trying to contribute, here:

> I've been using a subset of boost (most of the "headers-only" stuff, 
> plus the regex library) under GNU/Linux for some time now, using 
> auto-tools scripts that took about an hour to create.  If the boost.org 
> maintainers are willing, I would like to contribute my existing work and 
> expand it to cover the entire library.  This would consist of a 
> "Makefile.am" file in each subdirectory, plus top-level "bootstrap" and 
> "configure.in" files.  Since this doesn't really fall under the 
> "submissions" guidelines on the boost.org website, what is the preferred 
> method to submit these files?

Tim Shead