Re: [jamboost] Re: The right configuration mechanism

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-16 08:04:39

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:50, Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> Alexey Pakhunov wrote:
> > Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >>So,
> >>
> >> configure gcc : : /usr/bin/g++-4.0 ;
> >>
> >>will no longer work and you'll be required to write:
> >>
> >> configure gcc : : command=/usr/bin/g++-4.0 ;
> >>
> >>?
> >
> > Mmm... Yes. I thought we speak about introducing 'configure' and a new
> > syntax for it.
>
> Do you mean that we are going to introduce "configure" with a new,
> possibly even with a completely incompatible syntax, but "using" will be
> left without changes for backward compatibility? I wonder if it's
> possible at all. 

Why not?

> I thought we were going to break syntax compatibility 
> for both using and configure, and configure is just a new name for using.

I planned to retain 'using' with exactly the current syntax.

- Volodya

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