Re: [Boost-build] Tutorial corrections

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Tutorial corrections
From: Paulo Márcio Figueiredo Alves (pauloalves1986_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-25 07:22:36

>
> I can add that, sure - though maybe putting all possible spellings in a
> tutorial will
> be confusion it itself? Maybe, that should be part of reference docs, not
> tutorial?
>

True; the tutorial should keep simple, but maybe it could include remark
linking to reference?

(Or may be it's time to deprecate some of them, such as the '.v2'
> variants that, I assume, as there for only historical reasons.)
>

It sounds good, but I would deprecate only in the docs, not showing
warnings etc. Many may use it, I don't know.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:07 AM Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 25.09.2015 04:40, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On 25-Sep-15 3:16 AM, Paulo Márcio Figueiredo Alves wrote:
> >> It also accepts build.jam and project-root.jam, which is what I
> >> prefer to
> >> use; seems less redundant.
> >> And indeed it would be nice find it in the docs.
> >
> > I can add that, sure - though maybe putting all possible spellings in
> > a tutorial will
> > be confusion it itself? Maybe, that should be part of reference docs,
> > not tutorial?
>
> (Or may be it's time to deprecate some of them, such as the '.v2'
> variants that, I assume, as there for only historical reasons.)
>
>     Stefan
>
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>
>       ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>
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