Kevin Heifner wrote:
Subject: Re: [Ann] Boost and Google Summer of Code 2007
There are many reasons to prefer the native IDEs build/debug systems. One goal of MPC is to allow each developer to choose what they want to use. On the same project one developer can use Visual Studio 7.1 another 8 another NMake another gmake on Linux etc.
I've never head of MPC before this thread but it sounds interesting. Currently we are using .mmp files and makmake to generate CodeWarrior and Visual Studio projects. A .mpp file is horribly limited and we essentially just use it as a last resort to regenerate the native projects if something goes wrong. It sounds like MPC preforms a similar task to makmake just presumably much better. Would it be possible to set up a bbv2 Jamfile->MPC->{CodeWarrior .mcp | Visual Studio vcproj | etc.} chain so we could use Boost.Build as the primary build description and then use native IDE projects for the daily work (having MPC as an implementation detail presumably only on and run by the build server nightly to build fresh IDE projects from the Jamfiles)? Thanks, Michael Marcin