Wild thought- Is there a rational way to have a "environment" checker. I am NOT a bjam expert- but it would be handy if we had some cmd line program that would follow spit out all the info BJAM looks for and finds. I am slightly half cocked in this idea, but basically it would have to be enough information that you could get a better sense for what Bjam was doing Something like C:\boost\> boostenvcheck.exe ** Enviroment Report** Python is not in the path User-config.jam file is setup to use gcc, vc7.1 Etc.... I have been using boost for (has it been that long) 2 years now. Bjam still confounds me. ( I appreciate the work effort, it is a cool tool, I remain struggling with it though) (I am also a tad frustrated because I have been trying to make vc7.1 build wave for the last 5 hours) Semi-Related: I proposed (a long time ago) building a SIMPLE gui framework- with the core elements, and then making a "boost environment checker" out of that- I.e. imagine a tree control with all the types of settings and what nots, and the ability to navigate this gui to try to determine what is not set correctly.
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Lars Gullik Bjønnes Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:27 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation
"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap@gmx.de> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@gullik.net> wrote:
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
| We never wanted to be the sole province of experts. We always wanted | widespread usage. If you want to be a member of an exclusive | "experts" club this is the wrong place to find it.
Sure. But there, imho, must be a difference expected between _users_ of the libraries, and _installers_ (or packagers) of the libraries.
| How so? Shall people employ an administrator to | install the libs they want to check out?
No. But IMHO it should be expect that it is a bit harder to install (and in this case it is build as well) the library than use it.
So: Create an windows installer and then the user can use that.
-- Lgb
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