Re: [Boost-build] project-root.jam --> Jamroot.jam patch.

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-05 16:39:19

Jurko Gospodnetic' wrote:
>    Hi Rene.
> 
>>>   Older variants such as project-root.jam, build.jam, Jamroot, Jamfile, 
>>> etc. should be deprecated and slowly phased out. Older names could me 
>>> made to display a (possibly optional) 'deprecated Jamfile name' warning.
>> Could you be specific as to which names you want to phase out?
> 
>    project-root.jam             --> Jamroot.jam.
>    [Jj]amroot(.v2|) jamroot.jam --> Jamroot.jam.
>    [Jj]amfile(.v2|) jamfile.jam --> Jamfile.jam.
> 
>    I remember seeing a reference to build.jam somewhere in code while 
> reading through it a few days ago, but can not find it now. When I saw 
> it I assumed it was some older name for Jamroot.

There's been a long standing debate between myself and others about the 
names :-) I personally prefer the more descriptive, and direct, names of 
project-root.jam (or project.jam, or root.jam) and build.jam. But I've 
only "complained" about the names when someone suggest to remove the 
option of letting me use my preferred names ;-) Hence having a 
consistent suggested names in docs is fine with me. But preventing the 
use of others, with things like deprecation messages, is not.

>    We could still provide support for these older [Jj]amroot, 
> jamroot.jam, [Jj]amfile & jamfile.jam names, possibly with an optional 
> 'deprecated' warning...
> 
>    Optionally lower-case variants jamfile.jam and jamroot.jam could be 
> chosen as the official names. I'd actually prefer those... :-) but 
> doesn't really matter one way or the other...

I think we have to keep the lower/upper case options around just because 
there are system where the distinction doesn't exist.

>    Btw. is BBv1 finally dead? Can we remove hacks related to it?

No clue which BBv1 hacks you are referring to.

-- 
-- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything
-- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com
-- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com
-- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo