Fw: Armstrong/Boost/Perforce

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-07 08:57:03

FYI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Scherschanski" <MScherschanski_at_[hidden]>
To: "'David Abrahams'" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: RE: Armstrong/Boost/Perforce

> Hi Dave,
>
> all right then, I'll try, but first I have to get in touch with it.
> Further I have really big problems with this yahoo-groups-stuff,
sometimes
> it's down, today it's up, but I can't sign in. Nevermind, I'll try
from
> home.
>
> Matt's version seems to be some kind of a hack, because you can't
build it
> from scratch and I wrote to him, but he never tried too make it from
the
> scratch (strange!).
>
> I think some other features would be nice too in jam, but first of all
I'll
> try to merge.
>
> Some other problem is, that I can't reach the perforce-Depot, because
the
> firewall of my company doesn't let me through at this port, hmm,
another
> workaround to find...
>
> From home I checked out the latest Jam-Source-Version, but the grammar
is
> being patched at the moment it seems. So I don't even have a working
2.4
> Version (whatever that should be or do). I'll try to check out yours
this
> evening.
>
> Nevertheless I'll find a way to get in touch with you jam-folks, even
when
> you don't make it easy for me! ;)
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:david.abrahams_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: Markus Scherschanski
> Subject: Armstrong/Boost/Perforce
>
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> If you want to try to merge these versions together, now is the time
to
> get started since we have merged the Perforce Jam changes into Boost.
> You might also want to join the jamboost list at yahoogroups; that's
how
> the Boost.Jam developers are communicating. Please let me know if
you'll
> be contributing.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Armstrong" <matt_at_[hidden]>
> To: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Your latest
>
>
> > All the changes are in
> > file://guest/matt_armstrong/jam/patched_version/...
> >
> > Be aware that I haven't merged it with stock jam for about a month,
> > and since then it looks like Chris Seiwald added a "Match" rule that
> > may or may not conflict with the match rule in my stuff (but I plan
to
> > just use Chris' version).
> >
> > --
> > matt
> >