Re: [jamboost] (sub)project handling

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-07 04:46:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> Please leave a space between quoted text and your replies, or I am likely
> to miss something important.

Okay. Since quoted text is highlighted in my e-mail client, I wasn't well 
aware of the problem before :-)

> > > It seems to me that the Jamrules file in every project's root (which is
> > > read upon invocation of Jam from every subproject) would have to give
>
> all
>
> > > of the subproject aliases. Would that solve most of these problems?
> >
> > Likely. How Jamfile location will be specified then? Using one-argument
> > "project" (don't like such reuse, actually), or with "subproject", or...
> > ?
>
> Why don't you make a proposal? 

Had very vague suggestions at the time of writing the previous message. I've 
tried to refine them, take a look at:
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost.Build_Projects
It's not finished yet, and some discussion is surely needed.

- Volodya