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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

 


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