On 18/07/2017 20:08, Louis Dionne via Boost wrote:
(2) Prospective Boost developpers are sometimes driven away from submitting because they would have to use Boost's build system, which they don't know.
I don't think a C++ programmer with a programming level to write a Boost library would have any problem to write a Jamfile copy-pasting from any library. As long as it's very basic stuff, with no external dependencies, maybe, but that is true of any build system. And if it's not, you need to read a yet to be written documentation (I have heard of urban legends about
On 18/07/2017 23:18, Ion Gaztañaga via Boost wrote: people finding bjam documentation, or is it b2 ? and is it the same as the one embedded with boost ?). And then, sometime, it hang. Bjam is the only build system I got hanging, and the only support I could get from the bjam community could be summarized as "well, that's sad..." and "well, it works on my box, so who care... maybe Intel could modify their tools to accommodate?". I agree with the copy-pasting though, without that you might forget a space somewhere, and the thing is space sensitive (and just because we got used to it does not mean it's normal). Even if there was learning material, one should not have to learn a new boost specific build system just to contribute. And I don't think bjam can build anything else than a simple C++ project so it's not like you can capitalize on the time spent (I tried, then switched to CMake). CMake could be a piece of junk, but it's a maintained, somehow documented, community supported piece of junk, that I can use on real projects. If bjam was so great, it would be used by now. So, now, about that doc generation thing... Alain