Re: [BBv2][msvc] amd64, ia64 and some other features

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-04 10:34:32

Alexey Pakhunov <alexeypa_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Andrey Melnikov wrote:
>
> Now I see. You and I mean a bit different things when we talking about 
> "separation of initialization and autodetection code".
>
>>>Gm. I definitely want to separate initialization and autodetection code.
>>> :) Why do you think it is a bad idea?
>> 1) Because it was already separated into msvc.default-path rule. You can 
>> add more rules to msvc.jam if you need more modularity.
>
> In my opinion 'msvc.default-path' offered a messy way of autodetection. 
> My goal is to make BBv2 to detect as many VS installations as possible 
> and then provide a way to select toolset configurations a user wants to 

Are you responding to yourself here? This thread is almost impossible
to understand from your posts.

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