Re: [Boost-build] How many different kinds of command-line options

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-13 03:01:11

On Friday 10 February 2006 21:11, David Abrahams wrote:
> ...do we have in Boost.Build?
>
> Seems to me we have
>
>   bjam -jamoption -sVARIABLE=setting --bboption --bboption=value
> feature=value ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                 Not sure we're using
>                                                 this one
>
> Somehow this just seems too confusing.  Am I missing something?

I think that would be confusing to have it all, but:

  1. The -sVARIABLE=setting is not used in V2, at least I never used it.
  2. --bboption=value is used only in help system.
  
So, the commonly used options are

   -jamoption --bboption feature=value

and -jamoption are used mostly for -d* options. Maybe, we can add --options 
for all -joption, i.e, if we have

   -n

we can add

   --dry-run

with the same effect. Do you think that will improve things?

- Volodya