Re: [Boost-build] Tool generating multiple files

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-30 11:53:27

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> Vladimir Prus
> What's desired here is:
> 
> 1. Read file content when generator is running.
> 2. Somehow cache this information so that we don't always 
> rescan the file.

Yes

> I tend to believe that the most efficient method to do (1) is 
> to write a 
> Python module and call it from bjam. Unfortunately, I don't 
> have a ready 
> pointer to the code that calls Python module, but it must be 
> somewhere in 
> mailing list archive.

Doh.