Re: [jamboost] Re: [UI] stage rule

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-13 01:50:53

[2003-01-13] Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>>>Say I have this jamfile
>>>
>>> exe hello : hello.cpp ;
>>> stage store : hello d/1 ;
>[...]
>>>Before fixing it, I'd like to ask what the semantic should be?
>>>
>>>1. Should we create "store/d/1", or
>>>2. Should we create "store/1"
>>>
>
>> V1 does the second case. And I just don't see the utility of doing the
first
>> case. After all it's creating the "store" stage directory not the
"store/d"
>> stage directory.
>
>Well, one might want to install complete directory tree somewhere, e.g.
Boost 
>docs. I think we can have another "install" rule for that, right?
>
>If so, I'll make "stage" behave as in V1.

I'd say make it behave like V1. As long as... the behaviour from V1 of
creating subdirectory stages is still possible. For example the way I creat
a tree is with something such as:

stage dir : something ;
stage dir/sub : another ;

Results in:

dir/something
dir/subdir/another

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