Re: [jamboost] v2 of Boost.Build?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-28 07:37:55

From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>

> > Maybe you mean item 1. in
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jamboost/message/1205? Or did you have
> > something else in mind?
>
> I'm referring to issue 553727 in the tracker. The message you mention
applies
> as well. The property.as-path rule is used now to generate subvariant
paths
> that correspond to property sets. It does so in a very dump fashion, just
> creating a new path element for each property. So we'll have very funny
paths:
>
> .../variant-debug/optimization-off.....
>
> You see, debug is implicit property and "variant-" is not needed.
> Then, <optimization>ofis part of "debug" an should be omitted also.
> IOW property.as-path should generate the most compact representation
> of the properties given to it.

OK, that's fine. I can do it.

> > P.S. I realize that I'm very literal-minded and that may sometimes make
> > things difficult...
>
> Hmm... I really don't understand why liberal mind causes any problems? I
even
> looked up the word in the dictionary but it still means what I though.

There's no problem with a liberal mind (depending on your political
leanings).
A *literal* mind is sometimes unable to make common-sense assumptions about
what someone else is saying, out of fear of misinterpreting something.

Thanks for understanding.

-Dave