Re: [jamboost] Re: Refactoring progress report

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-13 01:59:27

[2003-05-13] Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>> 2. That we modify the load sequence to allow not having a Jamroot file...
>>
>> a. We do the regular search for the Jamroot file, if found great.
>> b. If not found we create a "fake" project-root where the Jamfile is
>> located, that is the current dir. Along with this we might want to issue
a
>> warning indicating the lack of a formal Jamroot file.
>
>I wonder if there's a danger here. Say there's some wayward Jamroot, which
is 
>not related to the project we're building?

Yes, that's definitely a danger. And the only solution is to require
additional declarations in the standalone Jamfile case. But this is one
aspect we wanted to move away from of V1 (the subproject declaration).

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