[C++-sig] build system feature requests

[Rene Rivera]

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> Could you add two features to the build scripts for Boost.Python?
> First, when running bjam from libs/python/build, the libraries are not
> name mangled as described here:
> http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Results

Ok that's easy enough. And other libraries already do that.

> Second, It is fairly common (for me, at least), to have more than one
> version of Python installed on my system at any given time.  Is it
> possible to add -py23, -py24, etc. to the standard mangling scheme and
> the build directory layout?

Also easy, but this one I would ask Dave and others to comment as I'm 
not an expert on BPL usage. I would think that this only applies to BPL 
extensions and the BPL library itself.


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