Re: [jamboost] Re: Re: thoughts and comments on bjam/Boost.Build V2

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-05 00:37:45

Samuel Krempp wrote:

> le Wednesday 04 February 2004 08:16, ghost_at_[hidden] ?crivit :
> 
>>>>The "-sTOOLS" syntax is gone in V2.
>>>
>>>Why is this so ?
>>
>>I think we wanted to move away from using variable to specify things
>>anywhere.
> 
> 
> but this syntax makes the toolset look like a target, would it be possible
> to change it to something more explicit ?
> in the style of : bjam <toolset>gcc 
> or whatever explicit syntax.

At one point I implemented an option to accept "--tools=gcc". Would that be an 
acceptable approach? I tend to also prefer the explicit indication of the 
toolset (and other things) in the command line.

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