[C++-sig] Re: build system feature requests

[David Abrahams]

Rene Rivera <grafik.list at redshift-software.com> writes:

> 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 don't have much to say about it.  Sounds OK to me.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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