Re: [jamboost] darwin-tools.jam and feature names

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-29 10:39:12

Rene Rivera wrote:

> > Rene Rivera wrote:
> >>But I've been waiting for the release to do some cleanup of BBv1, like
> >> the above. And work on the names of toolsets, and add detection of
> >> installed tools (hopefully shared with BBv2), and work on the testing
> >> XML output.
> >
> > XML output? What is it?
>
> In a short exchange between Beman and Dave it came out that we need the
> test system to output the results of the tests directly instead of running
> the external program that parses the bjam output. 

Hm... what's the motivation? I'm actually less opposed to this idea that I was 
before, but anyway...

> This is something that
> should be shared with BBv2 also, or just bite the bullet and switch to BBv2
> after this release.

One thing about V2 is that regression tests for all libraries are already 
ported. I've now got a new machine with lots of free diskspace, so I'll try 
to install Intel compiler for Linux and create a toolset for it. If that goes 
as expected, we'll be able to run Linux regression tests with V2.

- Volodya