Artyom wrote:
These questions are asked purely out of curiosity due to my ignorance of Boost.Jam/Boost.Build, not because I have an axe to grind.
In my opinion, I would like to see efforts to make boost build generate CMake scripts and/or visa versa.
I hope someday BB would be replaced with CMake, but as everything else it requires time and effort (=money) so BBv2 still lives.
Quite a lof ot effort went into CMake experiements, including: - Writing a pile of CMake code to do what Boost.Build does now, similar in #lines to Boost.Build. - Employing folks (supposedly for real $) to work on ryppl. - Supposedly paying money to Kitware for some CMake improvements. And, it's still not there yet (after over 2 years). Frankly, if somebody wants to have an ideal build system for Boost, and for C++ projects in general, it would be better to invest a similar amount of person-hours and dollars into Boost.Build -- and have the result ready already. - Volodya -- Vladimir Prus Mentor Graphics +7 (812) 677-68-40