Boost.Build V2, Milestone 7 released

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-11 04:51:57

I'm pleased to announce that the next milestone release of Boost.Build V2 is 
available at

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m7.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m7.zip

See also 

http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/

for online docs (a copy is included in distribution).

Changes in this release:

- Performance was improved.
- Support for Sun and Darwin toolsets was added. 
- <tag> feature, which changes the name of target depending of build
variant, was implemented.
- Old-style targets-ids are no longer supported.
- New 'glob' rule allows to easily perform wildcard matching in Jamfile.
- Improve bison/flex support to understand C++.

The following bugs were fixed:

- bogus error on use of project default-build attribute with several
main target alternatives.
- broken toolset inheritance
- hard error after skipping a target due to incompatible requirements
- incorrect behaviour of a generator when producing several targets of 
the same type
- errors on use of the 'project-root' rule in Jamfile context
- inability to require specific compiler version for a main target. 
- incorrect behaviour of "bjam msvc" when msvc is configured with explicit
version.

Thanks to Christopher Currie, Pedro Ferreira and Michael Stevens, who
contributed to this release.

- Volodya