Re: [boost] Interface for configuring third-party dependencies

Subject: Re: [boost] Interface for configuring third-party dependencies
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-07 13:27:40

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Boosters,
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> Does anybody have comments on this?
>>>
>>> How would per-project dependency configuration work?
>>> If I want to configure zlib to be something when compiling one
>>> project, and something else when compiling another project with
>>> boost.build. I wouldn't want to modify user-config.jam in my HOME
>>> directory.
>>
>> You would put project-config.jam in the root of your project. For
>> extra convenience, you can even create project-config.jam.in with
>> some sensible defaults, put it in version control, and then ask
>> all developers to create project-config.jam based on the .in
>> version.
> 
> Thanks, that's cool. Is the current version already this way?

project-config.jam is supported in the current version. The rest of
this proposal is not available in the described form -- yet.

- Volodya