Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe

Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-20 14:00:31

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Christopher Jefferson
<chris_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Just to repeat, bb (and the recently suggested bam) already exist in the debian repositories. Using these names would cause problems with existing programs, and packagers. That seems a bit impolite to these other projects. In particular, bam is already a build system.

I think it would still be called "Boost.Build", but "bjam.exe" would
be renamed "bb.exe".

--Michael Fawcett