Re: [jamboost] Re: Relevant properties

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-06 07:54:18

David Abrahams wrote:

> > 1. The build directory is still used, in my proposal. That is, targets
> > are placed in "bin", not in ".".
>
> That's why it says "subdirectory"

Ok.

> > 2. How do we specify that we want some specific property in path. E.g.
> >
> > exe foo : foo.cpp : <relevant-feature>doc-format ;
>
> <build-subdirectory>doc-format
>
> > The <build-subdirectory> does not sound good in that context.
>
> Why not?

Just because it feels that there's one 'build-subdirectory', so something with 
several elements

<build-subdirectory>doc-format <build-subdirectory>foo

looks strange to me

> I'm warming to relevant-feature a bit, but it's still obtuse. 

Well, it has the smell of implementation detail :-(

> I know 
> I came up with the term, but I never expected it to be in a prominent 
> place in the system's UI.

Seems we need something in UI... maybe <represent-feature> or <track-feature>, 
or <show-feature-value> or <encode-feature-value> or <show-in-target-path>?

- Volodya