Re: Boost.Python V1 questions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-15 15:06:34

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Sunday 14 November 2004 02:28, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> >> It's needed for people like me who want to be able to test against
>> >> multiple Python versions.
>> >
>> > Ok. Is "python-version" property OK with you? So that it's possible to
>> > write:
>> >
>> > bjam python-version=2.2 python-version=2.3
>> >
>> > ?
>>
>> Well, shouldn't this be a sub-property so you can write
>>
>> bjam python-2.2 python-2.3
>>
>> just like you can write
>>
>> bjam vc-7.1 vc-6.5
>>
>> ??
>
> In case of Python, there's no property to make "2.2" subproperty
> of. There's no <toolset>python.

But why not? You are (ab)using toolsets for similar things like QT, IIRC.

> On a related note, we need a way to that python-version is not added
^--- "say?"
> to target paths of all targets, only to Boost.Python and python
> extensions.

I have no brilliant ideas for that.

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Dave Abrahams
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