Re: [Boost-build] Python port development

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Python port development
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-09 10:05:30

On Friday 09 July 2010 17:47:45 Artyom wrote:

> 
> > > And for all those reasons the CMake build system was  implemented for the
> > > boost project. It is done, works and is proven. 
> > 
> > ... and unmaintained? And because it's unmaintained, it's not even  possible
> > to prove that cmake gets the same test results on all targets. Yeah,  proven 
> >;-)
> > 
> > Also, most of the concerns about the language listed above  equally applies
> > to CMake -- it has crazy language that has no use whatsoever  outside cmake.

> I still do not support BBv2 for Boost.Locale even in the release for review for 
> one simple
> reason - there is no even way to do something like find_library, or find_path.

Just to clarify -- is this the only feature that you thing is not satisfactory
supported in Boost.Build?

> Maybe BBv2 somehow suits needs of Boost library as it trys to be self-containing 
> but it
> does not suits needs of libraries that do use 3rd part tools, and this is going 
> to increase
> as more libraries are developed and put in Boost.
> 
> So yes, you can develop a "perfect" build system that would not have crappy 
> language
> like CMake has, be fast, efficient and make a coffee for you,
> but it will take years of hard work to make it as stable and useful as CMake or 
> autotools are 
> 
> today.

This is FUD, sorry.

Thanks,

--
Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
Boost.Build: http://boost.org/boost-build2