Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe

Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
From: mahendra panpalia (panpaliamahen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-22 14:15:14

as bjam.exe is for buidling the code.

my suggestions
(1)bmake
(2)bbuild
(3)blmake
(4)blbuild

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Bo Persson <bop_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> > I think we should immediately remove both boob, baby and babe from
> > the list.
> >
> > Google searches will be too revealing ;-)
> >
> > Paul
>
> And how good is B2 ?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit
>
>
> or BBL?
>
> http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BBL
>
> Be Back Later sounds bad for a fast(?) build system
>
>
> and if we want to avoid religious connection, how good is BBT?
>
> Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
>
> http://www.krishna.se/
>
>
> Bo Persson
>
>
>
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> >> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Matthew
> >> Chambers
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:01 PM
> >> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> >> Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
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Thanks and Kind Regards,
Mahendra Panpalia