Re: [jamboost] development of V2

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-11 22:37:12

semajdranyam wrote:

> I just went to the
> http://boost.sourceforge.net/boost-build2/doc/development_plan.html
> page and noticed that development seems to have stagnated at Milestone
> 9.1 (Nov 06, 2003). Is this just that the page has not been updated or
> has development not been happening for the past year. What is the ETA
> for the 2.0 release it is listed as TBA.
>
> James

Hi,

I'm just a user, so don't take what I say as official.

I'm pretty sure the last milestone was 10, based on the download name -- 
that page hasn't changed since before I started using V2. It's actually 
under pretty active development right now, based on this list's 
activity. However, the boost group is also working towards a new 
release of boost (1.33), so the main developers' attention is probably 
somewhat divided. :-)

That said, it's very usable right now. I'm using milestone 10 to build 
a project that includes several third-party libraries (some source, some 
binary) on Solaris, AIX, MacOS X, and Windows. It's a heck of a lot 
easier than the makefiles I had, especially since I didn't use them on 
Windows -- I used msdev to build, so things periodically got out of sync.

Phillip