Re: [boost] Re: Long toolset names

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-02 13:16:14

Rene Rivera writes:
> You have to be carefull when changing the name. As the variant names
> for build+install require the toolset names to be in a perticular
> form. So you either update the common-variant-tag rule to account for
> your changes. Or you need to follow some rules:
>
> * You can use the short name or the long name of the toolset. For
>   example you can use either "intel-win32" or "iw".

OK, let's go with "iw", then.

>
> * You need the version of the toolset to include both major and minor
>   numbers separated by a period. No need for patch numbers. So here
>   you have to keep the "7.1".

OK.

>
> * You need to keep "stlport" in the name. [This would be an easy one
>   to change to recognize a shorter synonym]

Can we have "stlp" as a synonym, then?

>
> * You need to keep the basic format of:
> 	<name>-<version>...stlport...-tools.jam
>
> Even with that boost-base.jam will need to change to handle both
> "intel-win32" and "iw".

Here, I suppose:

        switch $(toolset)                                                                                       
        {                                                                                                       
            case borland* : toolset-tag += bcb ;
            case como* : toolset-tag += como ;
            case cwpro8* : toolset-tag += cw 8 ;
            case cwpro9* : toolset-tag += cw 9 ;
            case darwin* : toolset-tag += ;
            case edg* : toolset-tag += edg ;
            case gcc* : toolset-tag += gcc ;
            case intel-linux* : toolset-tag += il ;                                                             
            case intel-win32* : toolset-tag += iw ;
            ...
?

>
> You can probably shorted "vc6" to just "6", assuming that VC is the
> only supported backend for the toolset.
>
> So the shortest I would suggest is:
>
> iw-7.1-6-stlport453-tools.jam
>
> Which comes in at 29 chars. You could even add back in the "vc" and
> still be at 31 chars :-)

OK, sounds good enough. What about "como-win32-4.3.3-vc7.1-tools.jam"?
Does renaming it to something like "comow-4.3.3-vc7.1-tools.jam"
requires some tweaks to other parts of the Boost.Build as well?

Thanks for the assistance,
-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering