Re: [Boost-build] Target paths idea

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-03 10:00:57

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> It's worth to generalize this, and allow a project to specify custom
> function used to compute target paths. The question, then, is what
> do to if the rule is changed by the user in a way that path XXX
> is possible with previous version of the rule and with new version of
> the rule, but with different properties.
> 
> Maybe I should actually implement MD5 build signatures.

Maybe people should read the various suggestions I posted about shorter 
paths over the past few *years* ;-) The last one of which is about user 
designated feature paths 
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/14852>. It could 
certainly be extended to specify a user rule (with the @rule syntax) to, 
for example, calculate a hash.

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