Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe

Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
From: Matthew Chambers (matt.chambers42_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-22 11:01:22

On 7/22/2010 9:22 AM, Roland Bock wrote:
> Reading the contributions to this thread makes me wonder:
>
> How is this ever going to be decided? Is there a policy for changing
> names within boost?
There have been a lot of names proposed and quite a bit of dissension about the name changing at all due to build script breakage. However, I'm pretty sure the 
names not derived from "Boost.Build" are disqualified because they would either defeat the purpose of the renaming or they would require rebranding of 
Boost.Build in its entirety.  And the concerns about build script breakage are nullified if my suggestion of leaving a (deprecated) bjam wrapper executable to 
call the new executable is used. So that still leaves a pretty long list, but at least they're all quite similar:
bb
bbv2
bbuild
bboost
boostie
boosty
buildb
bmake
bbmake
baby
babe
b2
bbl
bam
bbt
boob
boobi

Apologies if I missed a few.
-Matt