Re: [jamboost] Status update?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-29 11:47:16

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>

> After a bit more thinking I figured that's what you meant :-) I'm
doing
> changes now to the Jambase to make it deal with both the V1 and V2.

Oh, I was going to suggest no changes to Jambase for V1; I think we
ought to just drop a boost-build.jam in the boost root directory now,
and leave it at that. I guess that wouldn't work, because people are
invoking jam via "jam" and not "bjam", right?

Well, if there is a change required to support V1, I hope it's minimal.
I would like to retire that functionality soon. I guess it looks pretty
small.

> It's much
> easier to move the Jambase only, but it's not impossible to move the
new also.
> The only problem I would see with moving anything more than the
Jambase would
> be us making all kinds of changes while people are using the code.
That would
> just make it harder on us to develop the V2 code.

That's fine; at minimum I'd like to be able to work with a single copy
of the Jam sources on my system. Unfortunately, I guess I need two Jam
executables under windows: AFAIK there's no way to get argv[0] to be
different from the invoked executable name as on *nix, is there?

-Dave