RE: [boost] Re: [wave] tool/lib

From: Hartmut Kaiser (HartmutKaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-23 04:39:37

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

> Actually this discussion moved slightly beside the point. My 
> original point was that wave should be treated as a tool 
> (like bjam). 

Still, besides your believes you haven't provided any valueable argument for
this. There are at least 3 projects going on I know of where Wave is used as
a library and is incorporated into a tool on its own. I'm sure, with the
inclusion of Wave into Boost this trend will increase.

> If (once) we agree on that we could discuss in 
> detail what should it means.

We have not agreed yet.

> bjam could in theory be used as library to implement custom 
> build systems. 
> bcp could in theory be used as library to implement different 
> code split utilities. wave could be used to build custom c++ 
> preprocessors. We could even have c++ compiler that could be 
> used as a library to implement custom compilers for c++ with 
> extensions. But I believe we need to treat them all as a 
> tools - whatever that means we decide later.

Here I've lost you again, *sigh*.

Regards Hartmut