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

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-06 12:16:39

On 2002-04-06 at 09:00 AM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
>
>> >Agreed, unless one load routine calls the other. There's nothing at
>all
>> >wrong with re-using the name "load". I confess to not having analyzed
>> >Vladimir's "load" code at all. Can someone summarize what it's doing
>> >that's different from modules.load?
>>
>> Vladimirs code also calls modules.load, but because it doesn't have to
>> dictate the tag used to indicate that the jamfile was loaded it
>doesn't need
>> changes to modules.load. In fact I just realized this is a moot point,
>I
>> keep forgetting this. If we have one module per Jamfile, the changes
>that I
>> did to modules.load are not needed! Yeay :)
>>
>> >> So that boils it down to needing another module that
>> >> does the file load management. Would a "file" module be apporpriate
>> >for
>> >> this.
>> >
>> >It depends whether we need it.
>>
>> Given what I just said above, I guess we don't need it.
>
>So, given all that, how would you (and Vladimir) like to resolve the
>overlap between your work?
>
>One possibility might be for you to pick up the work he's done, and my
>commentary, and finalize it. I get the impression that Vladimir has his
>hands full with the testing system at the moment.

I could :-) If it's all right by Vladimir. I might need some test cases he
was using for this, to speed my understanding of how to use the module.

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