Re: [jamboost] Re: Why do no targets depend on the Jamfiles?

From: Pedro Ferreira (pedro.ferreira_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-05 09:39:16

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>>>
>>>However, it's a question if it should be enabled by default, or via
>>>some explicit options. I'm sure some of your users will disagree to
>>>have everything rebuilt on every Jamfile change.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I agree that it is not a good idea to rebuild everything on
>> every Jamfile change. IMHO the built files should depend on the
>> commands used to build them...
>
> Right. We should write the contents of the commands out to some files
> as part of the build process and then make inequality a precondition
> of outdating new targets. Or we could wait for the Python integration
> to be finished and let Scons' mechanisms take care of it...

Agreed! That's what I was writing when I saw your message :-)

> ...which we can't do until BBv1 is retired. How's that project coming
> along, Volodya?

As a side note, I've stopped doing anything related to PyBB for a while. I 
will get back to it in a couple of weeks, hopefully for long enough to get 
it working reasonably.

Regards,

Pedro