Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 09:38:08

on Thu May 10 2007, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 10, 2007, at 7:01 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Wed May 09 2007, Doug Gregor <dgregor-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:
>>> We expend a lot of effort maintaining Boost.Build, much of which
>>> could be avoided if we bought into an existing system rather than
>>> rolling our own. To switch to another "back-end" and still roll our
>>> own... that would just be more wasted effort.
>>
>> Well, c'mon.  I am going to have to write scripts to quickly run
>> developer tests on multiple compilers, and someone will have to make
>> it possible for regression testers to do the same thing.  Are you
>> saying that code shouldn't be factored out and checked into Boost?
>
> Certainly not. 

You're not saying that, or code shouldn't be factored out?

> Boost.Build version 2 is a very interesting, object- 
> oriented build system built on top of Jam, that looks absolutely  
> nothing like Jam. I don't see any point in building another build  
> system on top of CMake that looks absolutely nothing like CMake. If  
> we pick up a standard tool, let's use it as-is and only customize  
> when we need to.

Sure.  My point is that any kind of higher-level functionality we want
to add, such as "multiple builds with one command," amounts to
building a front-end, however thin.  I think that's all Rene was
saying.

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