Re: [jamboost] runtime-link

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-05 09:51:48

[2002-12-05] David Abrahams wrote:

>Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>>> Or more specifically have a single feature, perhaps "<link>", that
>>> enumerates the above three options, instead of just false/true...
>>> 
>>> <link>shared -- The default (#1 above).
>>> <link>static -- Internal libraries linked static (#2 above).
>>> <link>maximum-static -- As many libraries as possible are linked
static
>>> (#3 above)... In some platform, like MacOSX, some libraries must be
dynamic
>>> linked.
>>> 
>>> Having it this way eliminates the need to worry about what the "runtime"
>>> libraries are.
>>
>> That's an excellent idea! And even if somebody desires to find-tunue
>> C runtime only, we've a way for extension: just add new values to the
>> <link> feature. Maybe "maximum-static" can be "all-static"?
>>
>> I'm eager to implement it as soon as possible. Anybody has objections?
>
>I think there was much confusion about the meaning of runtime-link in
>v1; many people thought they should set it to dynamic in order to
>build a shared library. I am concerned about the name "link" being
>even more confusable in that same way.

It does seem a bit confusing/ambiguos still. The two posibilities for
improvement I can think of are:

1. Change the name of the values...

<link>shared-libraries
<link>static-libraries
<link>maximum-static-libraries, or <link>all-static-libraries

2. Or, the one I think is better, change the name of the feature...

<link-libraries>shared
<link-libraries>static
<link-libraries>maximum-static, or <link-libraries>all-static

...and if you think "libraries" is long, we could sorten it to "libs".

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