Re: [boost] Radical idea for repository structure

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-18 10:35:01

on Tue Sep 18 2007, "Konstantin Litvinenko" <Konstantin.Litvinenko-AT-malva.ua> wrote:

> What about IDE users? Having such structure will kill all at once :) 
> Without 
> a tool that will generate IDEs project files this structure will force users 
> do a lot more work setting up dependencies, addition include directories and 
> so on. 

Again, svn:externals can help

> I have wrote such a tool and it was able to parse simple Jamfile and 
> generate VC 8.0 project and solution. But now I am on the way of total 
> refactoring :)
>
> Thoughts?

It's the right result but probably the wrong approach.  Boost.Build
itself should generate the project/solution/makefile/whatever.

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