Re: [jamboost] Boost.Build V2, load behaviour part 2.

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-31 08:46:06

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

> On 2002-03-30 at 09:21 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams)
wrote:
>
> >Hooray!
> >
> >Question: what is a "module-tag" supposed to be?
>
> It's the tag to use to identify the module as being loaded or not.
Maybe
> "load-tag" is better? Any suggestions welcome :-)

Why can't it always be derived from the module-name? Every module must
have a unique identifier anyway. I'm sure you have a reason, but please
spell it out...

> >After you answer that question, could you please update the docs for
> >modules.load to describe exactly what the parameters mean?
>
> Would be OK, since I'm writting it, to use use the "doc" module to
write that
> doc ;-]

Cool.

> Question, is there a way to get the argument template of a rule? ...So
I could
> print it as part of a rule's doc.

HDDRULE, HDRSCAN, baby. I'm telling you, doing doc dumps as build
actions has lots of advantages. You could even extract doc from comment
blocks, so there's no issue with interpretation of $() or space/newline
(though I guess strings work pretty well in Jam).

-Dave