Re: link-compatibility poll: results and feature removal

From: Zbynek Winkler (zwin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-13 14:29:44

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Here are the results:
> 
> It has helped me already	1 vote (off-list)
> Sounds important 1 vote 
> Not a big deal, can live without it 1 vote 
> Eeh.. it just produces pointless messages I can't understand 
> 0 votes
> Never heard about this 0 votes
> 
> And my own vote goes for "pointless messages". So, the distibution is very 
> even and it's hard to draw a coclusion. Guess I'll have to decide myself.

If it has not been decided yet, I'd go for the 'it has helped me already' as I 
have defined my own feature not to be link-compatible so I guess I am actively 
using the feature.

And as a side note - I've just found out that msvc-6.0 is not link-compatible 
with msvc-7.1 but bjam does not define those two to be link-incompatible.

And a question - I have bunch of declarations such as

lib cppunit : : <name>cppunit60 <variant>release <toolset-msvc:version>6.0 
<search>d:/software/cppunit-1.8.0/lib ;

I've determined the syntax only by try-and-error and by searching through the 
source files of v2 (Is there some documentation for it? I've searched for 
'condition'...). I expected

lib cppunit : : <name>cppunit60 <variant>release <toolset>msvc-6.0 
<search>d:/software/cppunit-1.8.0/lib ;

What is wrong with that?

Zbynek

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