[Boost-build] path.glob-tree

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-21 06:45:51

Rene,
I see that you've added path.glob-tree function, that more than one user has 
asked about. Thanks!

Do you think we should also added rule 'glob-tree' callable in project's 
context, just like we have 'glob' rule? 

The explain, the difference between path.glob and glob are that:

   1. glob searches relatively from the project where it's used. It's much
   easier than getting the path to current Jamfile and passing that
   to path.glob.

   2. The result has relative paths from the project's source dir -- 
   so result of glob can be directly passed to any main target.

   For example, if you use path.glob in $project_root/foo/bar, then
   path.glob will likely return paths like "foo/bar/whatever", and if
   you try to use such paths in foo/bar/Jamfile, it will fail. The 'glob'
   rule will strip the "foo/bar" prefix.

The new 'glob-tree' would do the same extra processing that 'glob' does. The 
change itself it straightforward, I can do it. I was just checking that it 
would be fine with you.

- Volodya