[boost] Re: [1.33.0] Let's start preparations...

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-11 03:50:30

Vladimir Prus writes:
> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>
>> David Abrahams writes:
>>> I've always thought that a design that gets information by processing
>>> stdout from bjam would be fragile.  Furthermore, it means we can't use
>>> the -j option with bjam, which, even on uniprocessors, can speed up
>>> builds considerably.  The build system itself should be writing the
>>> XML.
>> 
>> Exactly. Is BoostBuild v2. going to give us that?
>
> Depends what you mean by "going". It's not a planned feature
> yet. And I think it's better to try to make V2 the official build
> system before adding any more features to it. After that, something
> should be possible.

It can hardly become "the official build system" until we can use it
to run regression tests.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering