Re: [jamboost] GLOB implemented; what to do with it?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-09 12:14:32

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>
> No not directly.
>
> The reason I suggested is basically because it was suggested that the
> globbing was as simple as possible, doing the more refined processing in
> the jam language itself with the results of the results returned by the
> globbing function. Thus the globbing must thus be as strong as possible,
> and returning directories is one way for the GLOB to provide even more
> information.
> But it is not strictly necessary and I thus suggest you leave out the
> directories.

BTW, I'm almost certain we don't currently work under VMS. However, I don't
think we've broken anything in the Jam core.

-Dave