Re: [boost] Why Boost.Build?

Subject: Re: [boost] Why Boost.Build?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-29 21:44:22

At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:38:47 -0500,
Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
> Even though I was the one who contributed to the increase of end users
> dealing with BBv2, with the creation of the build&install support,
> I've always been a proponent that having users rely on the Boost build
> setup is a bug. I.e. users should be able to drop source code into
> their own build system without *any* other extra effort. And the fact
> that many Boost libraries can't do that is sad.

Very sad.

> So Boost end users should *not* be the primary audience!

Well, but they are.  What's your proposed way around it?

> And like Emil says in reply to this also, for those of us that use
> BBv2 the only painful drawback is the speed. 

As a member of that group, I beg to differ.

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Dave Abrahams
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