Re: [boost] Quickbook :/

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-10 11:42:02

Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> On 7/9/06, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've received many valuable advices on how to set quickbook however I still
>>> can't make it work.
>>> My platform is windows, I managed to have bjam build quickbook.exe, but from
>>> there I can't build any of the docs like in \boost\libs\type_traits\doc.
>>>
>>> For convenience's sakes I put quickbook in C:\WINNT so it's easier to read
>>> for you, but no matter which path I put bjam can't find quickbook
>> 
>> I documented the procedure I followed here:
>> 
>> http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2006/06/setting-up-boostbook-under-windows.html
>
> Ok, I just added Julio's Installation and configuration docs to
> the Quickbook documentation. Thanks Julio! There is now a detailed
> step by step "Installation and configuration" section. For now, we
> only have the section for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista. Let's
> hope someone will contribute one for *nix and Mac.

FWIW, this is one of the main reasons I think a simplified translation
toolchain using just Python would be an improvement over what we have
now.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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