Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
Actually this discussion moved slightly beside the point. My original point was that wave should be treated as a tool (like bjam).
Still, besides your believes you haven't provided any valueable argument for this. There are at least 3 projects going on I know of where Wave is used as a library and is incorporated into a tool on its own. I'm sure, with the inclusion of Wave into Boost this trend will increase.
If (once) we agree on that we could discuss in detail what should it means.
We have not agreed yet.
bjam could in theory be used as library to implement custom build systems. bcp could in theory be used as library to implement different code split utilities. wave could be used to build custom c++ preprocessors. We could even have c++ compiler that could be used as a library to implement custom compilers for c++ with extensions. But I believe we need to treat them all as a tools - whatever that means we decide later.
Here I've lost you again, *sigh*. Regards Hartmut