Re: [Boost-build] Garbage collected BJam

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-06 23:11:30

"Sohail Somani" <s.somani_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Actually, now that I'm thinking about it... I think bjam and scons are
> incompatible enough to make this extremely difficult.
>
> For example, defines are free features in bjam and changing a define
> won't cause a rebuild for affected files in bjam but will in scons.

We only ever considered using the lowest levels of the scons build
system in Boost.Build -- levels that wouldn't be affected by those
design choices.  However, BB was built on a Scons substrate, we could
decide that with some of the new capabilities we'd gain, defines
should no longer be free features.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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