Re: Type registration and main target rules

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-06 09:28:42

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> per recent discussion with Dave, I've changed the type.register rule so that 
> whenever a new type is registered, a corresponding main target rules is 
> always created. Previously, you had to pass an additional parameter to cause 
> that.
> 
> The new behaviour is documented at:
> 
> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/extending/rules.html
> 
> If you have invocations of type.register anywhere, you might need to remove 
> the "main" parameter.
> 
> Dave, this means you don't need to tweak boostbook.jam to make your docutils 
> module work, just make sure boostbook is imported (so that HTML type is 
> defined).

Right. Now shouldn't we move the declaration of HTML somewhere else? 
BoostBook isn't the only client for it.

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Dave Abrahams
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