Making user-config into a project

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-05 08:56:23

Folks,
I think it would be nice to make user-config.jam into a project. So, you can 
use all the rules you can use inside Jamfile. Also, projects without explicit 
parents will be considered children of user-config.jam.

The first part of the change mean you can define targets, constants and have 
use-project calls in user-config jam. This is already possible if you add

import project ;
project.initialize $(__name__) ;

but the above is not nice.

The second part of the change means that all Jamroot files will inherit 
properties from user-config.jam. So, you can write 

project : requirements <include>/home/ghost/local/include ;

in user-config.jam and all your projects will get this requirements. I recall 
this was requested once. The code change is pretty trivial.

Comments?

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Vladimir Prus
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