Re: [Boost-build] Proposal to extend gcc's flavor feature

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-23 05:31:47

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Do you think that adding compiler version to the flavour feature is a good thing?
> That will make the 'flavour' feature fairly unstructured.
> Should we have 'real-version' subfeature instead?
>
>   
Yes something like that. Altough I'd prefer the version feature be the 
real version and give the current one
a new name, that reflects that this just is a user configured name 
extension of the toolset.

Not sure however how much of existing code this will break. So possibly 
this is not an option.

Roland.