[C++-sig] Re: hello.pyd - where did it go?

[David Abrahams]

Nicodemus <nicodemus at esss.com.br> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>Jesper Olsen <jesper.olsen at gmail.com> writes:
>>  
>>
>>>The good thing about disutils though is that it is very easy to give
>>>your source code to someone else - and they will be able to install
>>>it and use with very little fuss.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>We're hoping that will be the case with Boost.Build very soon.  Even
>>more so once the Python rewrite is done ;-)
>>  
>>
>
> I might be wrong, but I believe you said once that one of the design 
> decisions about Boost.Build was that it shouldn't depend on other 
> software; that's the reason (I believe) SCons couldn't be considered as 
> a replacement, since it depends on Python. Has this decision
> changed?

It seems so.

> Very nice to hear about the Python port, btw. :)

It's already been started.
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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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