Andrey Melnikov <melnikov@simplexsoft.com> wrote:
[...] * hook-ins to allow BBv2 projects to be managed in your favorite IDE.
I think the second alternative is better. For example these hook-ins (Boost.Build project type in case of MSVC7+) will make implementation of "project creation wizards to create BBv2 projects" possible. [...] What do you think?
This would replace the need to invoke a command line executable alien to the targeted user base by the need to download, install, and use a plugin alien to them. Really, if you want to boost the interest in boost, make using it easy on all platforms. This means it should be doable in a way that's very common on that platform. For Unix, invoking CLI tools is common, so downloading and invoking a special tool might be OK. On Windows, downloading a project file is common, so ideally project files is what boost should provide. For obvious reasons, those should somehow be generated from whatever Boost.Build uses. Whether this is possible I don't know. But that's the ideal.
Andrey [...]
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