Re: [jamboost][BBv2][msvc] multiple patches by Aleksey Pakhunov

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-30 20:59:56

Alexey Pakhunov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I attached the MSVC and MS Platform SDK parts of the patch. All changes 
> are localized in 'boost/tools/build/v2/tools'. You can see that even 
> these two parts are quite big. 

I tried to decompose your megapatch. Here are the subpatches I see:

- the new msplatformsdk feature (without corresponding support in the 
toolsets)
- new cpu-arch feature (without support)
- configurations class
- modification of check-init-parameters rule
- new configure rule
- "configure all" syntax, "version registration" framework
- VC8 vcvarsall.bat stuff to enable cross-platform and 
non-cross-platform compilation for amd64/EM-64T and Itanium/IA-64
- interactions between platformsdk module and toolsets
- manual generation of environment setup script for 
<msplatformsdk>external configuration
- trivial change of toolset.flags into just flags
- migraton to the CONFIG_COMMAND framework
- registry-based autodetection
- a trick to export environment variables from cmd into sh
- single vsvars.bat run for link and mt on VC8

There are 14 distinct almost independent changes, and each of the 
changes should be grounded enough in order to be accepted. I think we 
should discuss and submit to CVS each change separately.

Vladimir, David?

Andrey