[Boost-testing] Re: [1.33.0] Let's start preparations...

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-11 05:20:31

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

>> The problem is
>> that fitting it into the structure of bjam is nontrivial.  It's
>> certainly not doable in the current Boost.Jam language.
> 
> What's the problem with invoking an external preprocessor? Performance?

The current design of bjam's header scanning mechanism does not provide any
hook which can be used to invoke an external preprocessor. Additionally,
invoking external preprocessor for each source file each time is too slow,
so we need dependency cache.

All together, this is nontrivial.

- Volodya