Rene Rivera wrote:
As has been said in a previous, similar discussion, simple disallowing of upper-case characters doesn't work. Bjam's files are called Jamroot and Jamfile, and the capitalization matters.
Ah, no ;-) Boost.Build will handle any of:
project-root.jam [Jj]amroot [Jj]amroot.jam [Bb]uild.jam [Jj]amfile.v2 [Jj]amfile [Jj]amfile.jam
I personally prefer the ones with the .jam extension :-) But I don't see a problem with using capital letters in file names. And more important, the restriction may not be appropriate for all file/dir names in the svn repo.
Note that our submission policy (http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#Directory_structure) states: "File and directory names must contain only lowercase ASCII letters , numbers, underscores, and a period. Leading character must be alphabetic. Maximum length 31. Only a single period is permitted. These requirements ensure file and directory names are relatively portable." John.