Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Build evolution

From: Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-02 10:39:49

Alex Besogonov wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> The rest of Jam can be ported without a lot of problems (Boost already
>>> has a decent filesystem library, regexp engine, etc.) 
>> I think we should not rush into rewriting everything. Ref-counted strings is 
>> the most important change we'd want for bjam. 
> And unfortunately it requires almost complete BJam rewrite. Jam 
> interpreter should be definitely rewritten, dependency tracking in Jam 
> is also very limited and somewhat hackish.
BTW, I've shared my repository for read-only access: 
http://elewise.com/pubrepos/BuildPort/trunk/

It doesn't do much, because I'm in the middle of JAM grammar refactoring.

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With respect,
             Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])