Re: bbv2 updated path.jam

From: Johan Nilsson (johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-26 07:15:18

"Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:200410261549.22436.ghost_at_cs.msu.su...
>
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 15:28, Johan Nilsson wrote:
>
> > I've updated path.jam (attached) with path conversions from/to VMS
native
> > paths. The base version I used was from the first milestone 10 preview,
but
> > I figured no fixes were made to path.jam in preview 2.
> >
> > I haven't put in any effort w.r.t. efficiency, but at least the tests
pass.
> > Comments are welcome.
>
> Your changes look very good. Even though I don't know anything about VMS I
> can't understand what's going on by looking at comment and the number of
> tests you've added is also impressive.

Thanks. I hope you mean "can understand", though ;-)

>
> I've committed your modifications.
>
> > Consider this only a first step in VMS support for
> > bbv2.
>
> I suppose getting compilers working is another step? Do you think we can
add
> "support for VMS paths" to developer-visible changes list for M10? Since
the
> change is completely safe for other platforms, I've included it already.

That should be ok, even though it's not really usable yet.

>
> > begin 666 path.jam
> > M(R @0V]P>7)I9VAT("A#*2!6;&%D:6UI<B!0<G5S(#(P,#(N(%!E<FUI<W-I
>
> If it's not very problematic for you, could you avoid using uuencoded
files,
> and use attachments, as described in
> http://boost.org/boost-build2/hacking.txt

> My mailer does not handle uuencode well.

I wasn't aware I was uuencoding ... does the attachment look better this time?

// Johan

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