Re: [boost] Re: Long toolset names

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-01 10:55:41

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> David Abrahams writes:
>> Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>> What should we do about the following Boost.Build toolsets which
>>> filename's length exceeds 31 characters:
>>> 
>>>     tools/build/v1/como-win32-4.3.3-vc7.1-tools.jam
>>>     tools/build/v1/intel-win32-7.1-vc6-stlport-4.5.3-tools.jam
>>> 
>>> ?
>> 
>> Sorry to state the obvious, but... shorten the names?
> 
> How exactly? Every part of the name carries essential information that
> cannot be omitted without disabling other possible configurations. For
> example, the only way we could omit "vc6" in
> "intel-win32-7.1-vc6-stlport-4.5.3-tools" is if we explicitly decide
> that we don't care about, let's say,
> "intel-win32-7.1-vc7-stlport-4.5.3-tools", and nobody ever will.
>                 ^^^
> And so on.

icl7.1-vc6-stlp453-tools?