Re: [Boost-users] bjam? cmake?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] bjam? cmake?
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-23 10:59:42

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> can someone explain to me what's been going on with Boost.Build?
> I cannot find a conclusive reference in the mailing lists, but it looks
> like bjam is being replaced with cmake.  Is that right?

No. While some folks like CMake better and are working on a CMake setup,
it's unclear where that will lead.

> If it is, how far has the effort gotten?  I have a few tiny utilities
> written in C++ currently built and installed with GNU make, which I'd
> like to replace with something more portable, and I don't want to learn
> bjam and bbv2 if their replacement is around the corner.

You are safe in learning Boost.Build, it's not going away anytime soon.

- Volodya