Re: [Boost-build] [1.34.0] Showstopper Missing Copyright/License

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-07 06:06:20

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:03, Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> >> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >>> I suppose lack of "-V2" in the tester id ;-)
> >
> > Strangely that was not the entire reason :-) I also looked at the
> > version number used in the toolsets. For BBv2 they usually contain a
> > ".", whereas for BBv1 the toolsets don't use a period.
>
> Shouldn't toolset names never contain an extra dot because of limitations
> of some CD-ROM file system? I darkly seem to remember there was once a rule
> about this.

In V2, there's a single toolset file for all possible versions. So, using 
version like "7.1" or "4.1" does not mean you have to have a file named 
gcc-tools-7.1, and the problem with CD-ROMs is not longer there.

- Volodya