Re: [jamboost] Saw this post on c.l.c++.m

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-20 08:00:02

I also saw this thread on the clc++m and was surprised about the 
popularity on bjam. For a long time I always defended bjam in 
discussions but people hesitate to use it because it is not widely 
accepted yet.

Currently I am also changing a the build system of 5 projects (together 
about 70K lines) with dependencies on lots of external libraries 
(blas,lapack,metis,superlu,hypermesh,...) to bjam v2 and it seems to 
work very well except for a few glitches that I have been able to 
workaround. The only real drawback is the lack of templates like in 
bjamv1. Luckily I had decided to generate all my Jamfiles using a python 
script so that whenever I need to make a global modif, instead of 
changing the template I just change my python script and regenerate the 
Jamfiles.

Diving into bjamv2, I now also better understand the recent discussion 
of using Scons as backend. I would love that python would be used anyway 
inside the build-system instead of bjam-language (which I found out is 
often a bit similar)

David Abrahams wrote:

> I think this augurs well for the future :)
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> Subject:
> Tried Boost.build v2-m9.1 and loving it
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> 19 Aug 2004 20:48:57 -0400
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> Tried Boost.build v2.0-milestone 9.1 and really loving it.
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> It's great for one-liner build scripts as well as very complicated 
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> The only major problem is the less-than-satisfactory documentation.
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> Truly amazing build system....once v2 gets decent documentation and a 
> book or two, it will do to make what subversion will do to cvs.
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> [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ]
> [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]
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