[boost] Re: vc8.0 toolset (bjam)

"John Maddock" wrote:

OK, thanks, toolset updated - in the long run though we should really be using the registry for this.

I very much agree. The first time that I read this: # Some installations set MSVCDIR instead of MSVCDir; who knows why? MSVCDir ?= $(MSVCDIR) ; # If MSVCDir is not set the user hasn't run VCVARS32.BAT if ! $(MSVCDir) I couldn't help thinking: why do these people bother with this? Tony