Re: [jamboost] Re: Your message to Boost-build awaits moderator approval

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-15 18:07:04

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [2002-11-15] boost-build-admin_at_[hidden] wrote:
>
>>Your mail to 'Boost-build' with the subject
>>
>> CVS: boost/tools/build/jam_src readme.html,1.1,1.2
>>
>>Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>>The reason it is being held:
>>
>> Message body is too big: 41180 bytes but there's a limit of 40 KB
>>
>>Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
>>notification of the moderator's decision.
>
> Interesting, didn't know there was a limit on the CVS emails. 

I'll bump it up a bit.

> And just in
> case the email never gets posted the changes I made are:
>
> To copy, and slightly cleanup, the "Core Jam Extensions" section from
> "build_system.html" to here(jam_src/readme.html).
>
> This seemed like a better place for that type of Jam "low level"
> documentation. And since we are writting new build sytems docs it the
> current ones will soon be outdated.

Makes sense. Thanks!
Are you going to make links to this page from somewhere?

> There's another section which could also be moved/copied titled "Jam
> Fundamentals". But I'm not as sure as it looks more general, thoughts?

Yeah, I think you should move that, too, probably into the same
document. Eventually we should probably write new Boost.Jam
documentation which just supersedes the old docs.

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David Abrahams
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