Re: [boost] The --toolset option

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-31 00:30:52

Beman Dawes wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Okay, now it's my turn to propose something to sneak into 1.36.0
>> at the last minute. Fortunately, it's only documentation change.
>> 
>> For quite a while, both getting-started, and bjam --help mentioned
>> --toolset option. This in practice, resulted in folks getting wrong
>> analogy and trying to use --variant=debug --link=shared, etc. We agreed
>> (on Boost.Build list), in principle, that we better remove --toolset
>> from documentation, and use 'toolset=' instead -- which has exactly
>> the same effect.
>> 
>> So, I would like to commit the following Jamroot change to HEAD and
>> merge to release branch. Any objections?
> 
> Go ahead and commit to trunk. You don't need permission from me to do
> that. But hold off on a branches/release mere commit until enough trunk
> tests cycle to be sure there are no last minute snafus.

Well, the Jamroot change only changes help message, no behaviour change
either. But anyway, as release is not tomorrow, I can wait for test
results.

>> I also would like to see
>> the issue filed against getting-started:
>> 
>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2050
>> 
>> fixed, and can provide a patch assuming release manager is fine with
>> having this doc tweak merged into release branch, too.
>> 
>> Opinions?
> 
> Docs changes are OK, but don't necessarily expect to see them in the
> beta. Although I do expect one more cycle of doc builds before the beta
> goes up on SourceForge.

OK, thanks.

- Volodya