Re: [jamboost] v2 of Boost.Build?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-18 15:32:31

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From: "albrechtfritzsche" <albrecht.fritzsche_at_[hidden]>

> Hi all,
>
> I've just joined this mailing list today. Hence I have no idea how the
> current state is - is there already an (alpha) version of v2 or is it
> still in its very beginnings?
>
> Searching the archive for 'v2' wasn't very successful.

Hi Ali,

Well, there is neither an alpha nor is it at the very beginnings. Lots of
new code has been developed (see tools/build/new in your boost CVS tree),
but we haven't got to the point of being able to build anything with it.
Momentum has fallen off a little of late, mostly because I've been really
busy with other things, and because of the effort required to solidify v1
for the recent Boost 1.28.0 release. I think we're relatively close to
being able to release an alpha now; your help would be appreciated, of
course! At the moment, Vladimir is playing "task-master"...

Vladimir, what do you think needs to happen next? Did you guys agree with
my radical command-line suggestions? I could implement that stuff...

-Dave