Re: [Boost-build] Python port development

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Python port development
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-09 15:14:09

Artyom,

Any way you can change your email config such that the quoting 
attributions are kept? It's getting hard to figure out who said what :-\

On 7/9/2010 1:40 PM, Artyom wrote:
>>> - Creation of  config.h like files or results of compile time checks..
>>>
>>
>> Generating header files is fairly easy.  I usually use  make/print.
>
> Easy but still. In autotools it is just generated with all checks, in CMake you
> have a simple template that is filled automatically.
>
> Once again. I can write everything and anything but the question is the effort.
>
> I'm sure that you can do most of stuff with BB, the question is how
> simple is that.

Well, I'm biased on this point since I wrote a good chunk of the 
printing support.. But I find what I use in the build_extensions to be 
much easier, and configurable, than autoconf/tools for generating source 
files. For an example see the irrlicht build extension 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/tools/build_extensions/ext/irrlicht.jam#L94>. 
Of course that's only generation not system configuration. So part of 
your point is valid in that it *currently* is more work to do *exactly* 
the same as autoconf/tools do. But that wont be the case for very much 
longer. And you'll be able to do it cross-platform and multi-tools *at 
the same time*. Sorry, I'm preaching.. It's hard to avoid in these 
conversations ;-)

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