[Boost-docs] Why "boost.root"? (was: Can't build bjam docs)

Subject: [Boost-docs] Why "boost.root"? (was: Can't build bjam docs)
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-19 19:35:21

Rene Rivera wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:

>> The other thing I'd still really like to see fixed, is bjam's insistance on 
>> stripping trailing /'s from paths.  Currently it breaks all kinds of 
>> Boostbook XSL options :-(  Do you know if there is any way to work around 
>> this?
> 
> I'm looking at it now... Since I didn't know the problem existed until I 
> ran into it last night :-)

It's fixed now. With the change I can now use the more direct 
work-around of:

         <xsl:param>boost.root=.
         <xsl:param>admon.graphics.path=images/
         <xsl:param>navig.graphics.path=images/

But, I still question the need to have the boost.root setting. Are we 
really only interested in knowing where the "doc" location is? Or are we 
interested in the "html" (or "xhtml") output dir? If so, why not have 
"doc.root.path" or "output.root.path", making this a Boost agnostic setting?

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