[mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Witt Johan Nilsson wrote:
Paul Baxter wrote:
FWIW, I agree.
Keeping BBv1 in CVS and instead making BBv2 the default when executing "bjam" for this release would be easier on the users, in combination with adding support for "bjam --v1". Perhaps also some deprecation warnings should be output when building with v1.
BBv1 could then be removed from Boost CVS in 1.35 and made available as a separate download (tgz, zip).
That are all valid points, but at the end of the day we just don't have the resources. We can barely support one build system.
FWIW users that depend on v1 can always use 1.33.x
Thomas
Doesn't this seem rather Microsoft-ish? I'm thinking of .NET, the attitude was you wouldn't accept it when we offered it to you so now we're going to force it on you. And, if you really don't want .NET you can always use VC6.5. Do you see the parallels here? If it has to go away, and I'm not saying for a moment that it shouldn't, v1 should at least be formally deprecated for one release cycle so as not to catch the users off guard. Matt Scanned by McAfee GroupShield {X3BTB534}