Re: [Boost-build] Suggestion: handle Platform SDK like a library

From: Nicola Musatti (Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-30 04:34:26

Rene Rivera <grafikrobot <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Nicola Musatti wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be reasonable to handle Microsoft's Platform SDK as an 
> > external library, like the QT and STLPort examples that come with the 
> > distributed user-config.jam file?
> > 
> > This would provide a single, unified approach to handling VC++ 2005 
> > Express, which I expect to be popular among users.
> 
> Like this <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/13680> ?

Exactly! And while I agree with the point of view you express in this message,
that support for external libraries should be kept out of BB core, I feel that
support for the PSDK should be put in.

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti