Re: [Boost-build] Python port development

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Python port development
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-08 15:29:59

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

>> So the "new" bjam would have a different language than the current
>> v2? That's new to me.
>>
>
> We are not talking about bjam here, we are talking about boost.build.
> It's all the build system (scripts) that would move to a different
> language, IIUC.
>
> As far as I know, Rene is rewriting bjam (in C++), but for entirely
> different reasons. I just hope both (Rene and Vladimir) will
> collaborate or at least coordinate on this.

OK - that's what I'm not getting.  I tried the link in the original
post but my firefox browser sets off a bunch of security alarms
which I am reluctant to override.  I guess the title "Python Port"
suggested to me that it was a port of the current system
to python.

Of course if I had understood that this is a whole new scripting language 
for
building things like boost, I might have made a totally
different observation.  As it stands, I have no idea
what's being attempted here.

Robert Ramey