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Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
From: Emil Dotchevski (emil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-20 12:37:23


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> For those reasons, Rene and I have decided that "bjam.exe" should go. We're thinking
> about naming the executable simply "build.exe", since no other build tool bothered to
> take it.

The name bjam is no doubt hard-coded in many build scripts and
renaming it will create a lot of unnecessary bugs.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode


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