Re: [Boost-build] RFC: Rootless projects..

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] RFC: Rootless projects..
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-16 10:14:02

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> In trying to remove the roadblocks to standalone, aka modular, projects I
>> ran into one that should be easy to remove. In order to build a project a
>> "jamroot" is currently required. I'd like to remove that requirement by:
>>
>> 1. Allowing a jamfile to take the place of a jamroot (currently we allow
>> the inverse).
>>
>> 2. Make a jamfile without a parent project the jamroot for the project.
>>
>
> PS. Here's a PR that implement that <
> https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/83>.
>

Unless someone has good objections.. I'm going to apply this PR tonight
(~9pm CDT).

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