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From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-05 09:19:35


Maybe it would best to use separate rules for separate purposes? That
increases the ability to check for errors and reduces confusion, IMO.

maybe, project and extern-project?

or, project and project-id?

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: [jamboost] The "project" rule

>
> Hi,
> it was discussed some time ago that rule called "project" be used in two
> slightly different ways:
>
> - to assign project id and some attributes to the current project
> - to declare id for some other project that we're going to use.
>
> I've an interface question. Would it be OK to require that the second
case
> use this syntax
>
> project boost : jamfile-location /home/ghost/Work/boost ;
>
> This is the simplest way to disambiguate. Does anybody consider
> "jamfile-location" too verbose?
>
> - Volodya
>
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