Re: Type registration and main target rules

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-09 21:43:40

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Probably. The only suitable module seems to be builtin.jam. (unless we want
> a separate module just for HTML type). Feel free to move the type
> declaration.

I just committed a change that factors the declaration out of
boostbook.jam and simultaneously gives us a system for dropping in new
types without intruding on builtin.jam. I didn't want to cause too much
churn in the codebase, so I haven't done it, but I think most of what's
in builtin.jam could be broken out into types/*.jam. For example, the C
and H types could go into types/cpp.jam along with the c-scanner. I
think we should discuss the specifics before doing anything drastic, though.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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