Dave Abrahams wrote:
At Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:53:52 -0600, Rene Rivera wrote:
I would also like to know:
1. How does that non-versioned complete integrated tree work as regards to updates/pulls?
Today, you call GenHeaders explicitly, but if you check out Marcus' work you don't have to.
I worked with a build system that did something like that, generate headers to a common directory tree that forwards to the real header files. This has some drawbacks: * it takes time to generate the headers * the user will need to jump to the real headers to look for details * we need a cleanup to ensure that removed files are no more on the common directory having as consequence a complete rebuild. Then we moved to copy instead of generate forward headers and last we moved to add on the SCM soft links to the real headers. While this is done by hand we found it was the best compromise. I don't know if Svn or Git allows to create soft links on all the platforms we use. Just in case the build system you are proposing could had or already solve one of these issues. Best, Vicente -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Git-Moving-beyond-arm-waving-tp3254610p32... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.