Re: [Boost-build] CVS: boost/tools/build/v2/tools common.jam, 1.49, 1.50

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-16 10:12:26

On Monday 16 October 2006 18:07, Rene Rivera wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Monday 16 October 2006 06:11, Rene Rivera wrote:
> >> +#   boost_ <base> <toolset> <threading> <runtime>
> >> <version:boost-version> +#
> >> +# Might return:
> >> +#
> >> +#   boost_thread-vc80-mt-gd-1_33.dll, or
> >> +#   boost_regex-vc80-gd-1_33.dll
> >> +#
> >> +# The returned name also has the target type specific prefix and suffix
> >> +# which puts it in a ready form to use as the value from a custom tag
> >> rule. +#
> >>  rule format-name ( format * : name : type ? : property-set )
> >>  {
> >
> > Rene,
> > do you think that the code in stage.jam:rename rule should use those new
> > functions you've added? We've got some code duplication now, it seems.
>
> Yes, that's my intent... But I was making sure the transplanted code
> worked first :-) So I was testing it independently of stage.rename. The
> intent is to also replace the use of stage.add-variant-and-compiler in
> the root Jamfile.v2.

That's great. No rush, please kill the code in stage.jam when you see fit. 
Thanks for cleaning up all this logic!

- Volodya