Re: [boost] Why Boost.Build?

Subject: Re: [boost] Why Boost.Build?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-29 20:46:48

AMDG

On 03/29/2011 05:04 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> Part of that is because the design tries to do too much.
> Specifically, the production of multiple build configurations with a
> single build command offers most users no benefit in exchange for the
> enormous complication it causes in design, implementation, and
> especially in writing build instructions (Jamfiles in our case).

Whatever you're talking about here, it's outside of
my experience. I have never written a Jamfile that
was made significantly more complex by the fact that
multiple configurations can be built at once.

> For
> the few who do benefit from the feature, the ability to build multiple
> configurations easily could have been written as another layer that
> invokes the build system multiple times.
>

I disagree.  Being able to build multiple
variants of libraries is pretty much a must-have
on Windows, given that debug and release are
not necessarily ABI compatible.  I guess it
doesn't matter much to me /how/ it's handled,
but it can't be treated as an afterthought
that doesn't really matter.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe