Re: Newbie impression of Boost.Build v2

From: David Abrahams (gclbb-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-10 23:13:19

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi Zbynek,
>
> Zbynek Winkler wrote:
>> Here is an impression I got as a first time user.
>
> Thanks for sending those! First time users are important for any project.
>
>> http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/boost_build_v2.html claims to
>> be "user manual" which I think it is not. First of all it is too long.
>
> I'm not sure there's a problem. "User manual" should describe everything the 
> "user" (i.e. not developer) might want. It would probably be best to have 
> three documents: "manual for just users", "manual for extenders" and "docs 
> for hackers".

I think that's a great idea. Ali and I are discussing segregating
the code along those lines as well.

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Dave Abrahams
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