Re: [Boost-build] [BULK] Re: Sharing is caring: Visual Studio -> bjam

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-14 12:34:15

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> Johan Nilsson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:34 AM
> To: boost-build_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [BULK] Re: [Boost-build] Sharing is caring: Visual 
> Studio -> bjam
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> 
> Sohail Somani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Would anyone care to share their experiences on replacing Visual
> > Studio
> > with bjam for a medium sized project? Maybe what you appreciate or
> > miss?
> > I have my pros column already :)
> 
> There are many pros for using bjam, but one of the reasons I 
> still use 
> redundant VC projects is recompilation speeds.
> 
> // Johan
> 
> P.S. The bjam IDE isn't so hot either ;-)

Really? You find bjam recompilation to be slower than Visual Studio?

By the way, its not so difficult to set up VS.NET to use bjam as the
build tool. You have to use a makefile project setting.

The only reason I would use the redundant Visual Studio projects is for
the guess and click interface, mainly to easily navigate the project
files... Would be much easier if they allowed you to recursively add
folders, but of course no one wants to do that.