Re: [jamboost] development of V2

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-12 12:10:16

Phillip Seaver wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 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.
> 
You can use a stable Boost.Build from Boost 1.32 tools/build/v2 
directory. I think it's more recent than Milestone 10.

You can also use the latest CVS snapshot of BBv2.

Andrey