Re: [Boost-build] Improving Boost Build?

From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-16 07:05:53

On 5/16/07, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> >
> > A Wiki would be ideal. Using quickbook for something like this at the
> > moment only heightens the barrier to entry because not everyone can go
> > ahead and start writing stuff directly with it yet. My only problem
> > with a Wiki is that it's hard to export data from there (depending on
> > which Wiki we'd choose to use). Previous experience with MoinMoin
> > yielded very good results, but I don't think there's a good enough
> > "export" feature there just yet.
>
> Well BBv2 already has some Wiki pages here:
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost.Build_V2
> and while we're at it the installation guide on the Wiki is outdated:
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?InstallingBoost
> so do feel free to dig in and start editing ! :-)
>

Sweet! I'll get at it as soon as I can. :)

> Ultimately though we need to get the documentation inside the main bbv2
> docs: unfortunately these are written in Docbook XML which isn't the easiest
> thing to edit (even if it is "standard" in some sense) :-(
>

Yeah... But if we can somehow export the Wiki pages into RST files,
then maybe we might be able to do something about that.

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