Re: [Boost-build] Garbage collected BJam

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-07 09:58:28

Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Rene Rivera writes:
>>> Sohail Somani wrote:
>
>>>> Wasn't there a project to write bjam on top of scons? I only wish scons
>>>> had as good a configuration layer as bjam.
>>> Yes there was. And there's code in CVS towards that end. 
>> 
>> Are you sure?  AFAIK all we have -- which is not insubstantial -- is a
>> bjam <==> python binding, and a project to rewrite substantial parts
>> of Boost.Build in python.
>
> Well that is the code I was referring to. Was I mistaken in the intended 
> eventual goal of that code? 

The goal of that code is to speed up BB and improve maintainability by
writing most of it in a real first-class interpreted language (Python)
instead of the hack that underlies Perforce jam.  Using Scons is an
idea, rather than a goal.  We might try it at some point.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com