Re: [Boost-build] BBv2, build path and portability

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-23 12:41:35

On Monday 23 October 2006 04:51, Andrei Melnikov wrote:
> BB is built around portability requirement, but a lot of people don't
> need the portability of BB, just the flexibility. In this context I'd
> suggest to add some flexibility to the build path construction. Many
> people target just MSVC, or just GCC. These bin/msvc-8.0/debug paths
> can be annoying and harder to integrate into IDEs.
>
> Also, it's now impossible to redefine the predefined build variants
> and avoid extra directory levels below toolset/variant, isn't it?

We don't provide any easy mechanism to control the target paths. It would be 
nice to provide, but nobody has suggested how this should work in detail 
yet ;-)

- Volodya