Re: [Boost-build] Testing installed components

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 11:16:14

Phillip Seaver <phil_at_[hidden]> writes:

> How hard would it be to automatically create a Jamfile to be installed
> along with the libraries?  

Not hard, I think.  It's been a longstanding intention of mine to do
so.

> That could also help with the problem of some
> libraries having usage requirements (in the case of boost libs and in
> the more general case of building and installing libraries with bbv2).

Yep.

> I've also thought about trying to automatically generate msvc project
> files.  It would make editing easier for my users, since we use Visual
> Assist to do symbol completion and find function definitions, etc.

Yep, good idea.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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