[boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 09:58:30

David Abrahams wrote:
>>and the inconsistency in naming for the VC targets:
>>
>>msvc   // VC6.5 can we add vc6_5?
>>vc7    // VC7   would vc7_0 be better?
>>vc-7_1 // VC7.1 why the dash? why not vc7_1?
> 
> The dash is there for dumb reasons: we call the toolset files 
> 
>     <toolsetname>-tools.jam
> 
> and for the purposes of building a Boost distro on CD we can't have
> filenames with multiple '.' characters in them, so we changed '.' to
> '_' in the names of things like vc-7.1-tools.jam.  But we should have
> changed BBv1 to allow users to type a '.' on the command-line and
> translate it internally when we made that change; it would be pretty
> easy.  As for naming consistency, yes, it would probably be better.
> 
> BBv2 fixes all of these problems, and we've been reluctant to make
> trivial improvements in BBv1 because it's been so long anticipated
> that it would be retired.  Now it looks like it won't be retired until
> just after 1.33, so it's a toss-up whether we should do anything about
> it.  I'm willing to go either way.

It's easy enough to add vc-7_0-tools.jam, and vc-6_5-tools.jam that just 
refer to the current files. So I think we can go ahead and do it.

The "." to "_" translation might be harder as there a people who have 
their own toolsets with x.x in them. We'll have to think about that one.

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