Bjam in C++?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-24 05:25:52

Folks,
this morning I was thinking that some day (I hope soon), we'll have all the 
features ready and need to optimize Boost.Build V2. For example, I planned to 
implement certain parts of toolset.jam in C, and maybe 
property.jam/feature.jam too.

But why restrict ourself to C? Boost.Build actually works on Windows and 
verious Unix flavours, all of which have some C++ compiler. Maybe one that 
can't grok explicit member specialization or "mutable", but which can handle 
classes and virtual methods just fine. I think that can bring us a lot of 
benefits when it comes to hacking in bjam core.

And to add to my opinion, just now I've seen this:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01466.html

Even gcc developers consider requiring C++. If they consider it, than surely 
every other project can just switch. Also, one of the primary goals of 
Boost.Build is to be build system for C++ Boost -- which is collection of C++ 
libraries. Surely user needs a C++ compiler anyway.

Thoughts?

- Volodya