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From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-07 07:09:22


David Abrahams writes:
> Okay, here are some issues I think ought to be solved, in no
> particular order, some (much) more important than others:
>
> * inaccurate header dependency tracing

... and the fact that Jamfiles/rule files themselves are not included
as dependencies (see "Incremental testing is not reliable" on
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost.Testing)
...

> impedes useful incremental testing

[...]

> * generating XML by parsing the jam log is fragile and prevents the
> use of multiple build processes (-jN). This one should be almost
> embarassingly easy to fix.

And enormously beneficial, IMO.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering

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