Boost.Build V2, Milestone 9 released

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-06 04:08:22

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-m9.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m9.zip

See also 

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

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

Changes in this release

- Putting library in sources of other library now works even for static
linking, which makes expressing library->library dependency much
simpler.
- Performance was considerably improved. 
- Regression testing framework now works on windows.
- The "alias" rule can have usage requirements and passes on usage
requirements of sources.
- The "stage" rule can traverse dependencies.
- Support for "def files" was implemented.
- Targets paths are now shorter.
- Darwin toolset was improved.

The following bugs were fixed:

- It was not possible to specify empty suffix for a target type derived
from other type.
- The stage rules used to generate incorrect suffix in some cases.
- It was possible to load Jamfile twice. 
- The 'use-project' rule was broken when referring to a child project.
- Use of composite properties in requirements did not work.

Developer visible changes:

- New CALC builtin, which considerable improves performance.
- Source layout was reorganized.
- Handling of response file was simplified.

Thanks to Pedro Ferreira, Kirill Lapshin, Andre Hentz, Paul Lin, 
Jurgen Hunold, Christopher Currie, and Brock Peabody, who contributed to 
this release.

- Volodya