From: Alan Gutierrez (alan-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-20 07:52:02
* Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> [2005-01-20 05:37]:
>
> Alan Gutierrez wrote:
>
> >
> > Is this OTOH?
> ?
The phrasing, oh the other hand, made is sound as if you still
felt 1.5.2 has virture.
> > If a platform doesn't even have Python, wouldn't
> > be better if didn't even have Python 2.2 instead of Python 1.5.2?
> That is my point. We can use a recent version of python since I suppose
> recent versions support the same platforms as older version (probably
> even more). For all platforms that do not have python, we'll just
> recover all build instructions into a script.
> > Is the script script generation scripted in BBv2, or is it part
> > of bjam?
> The '-n' flag is standard in BBv2. Flushing everything to a script does
> not need to be supported explicitly, all platforms support redirection
> of the standard output.
Wow. I phrased that so poorly.
I mean to ask, Is the generation of a shell script, using the -n
switch, a feature of the bjam executable, or is it implemented
in BBv2 library, in the jam language.
-- Alan Gutierrez - alan_at_[hidden]